Georgy Cincadze

A witty, despairing French-Russian-Italian-Swiss art movie set in 16th-century Georgia, Stalinist Georgia, contemporary Georgia, and contemporary Paris, featuring the same set of actors in all four settings.

A young man, who loses his friend in a strange city goes to his funeral by train. The thoughts about his friend change like a scenery outside his window. The reality mixes with the unreal.

The film shows comic and tragic episodes of human life seen through the eyes of a fly. In the end, the fly becomes a victim of children playing in the sand.