Jan Švankmajer is the subject of this documentary, which honors his cinematographic work and his mastery, with whom the filmmakers spent three years distilling thoughts on topics such as his fetishes or his views on humanity. It is a three-pronged film, which needs two structural blocks of Švankmajer’s life: Jaromír Kallista, his producer, and Eva Švankmajerová, his wife and muse, who appears in the film through the doors of memory, dreams, and archives.

Jan Švankmajer thought that this would be his last film. An adaptation of a satirical theater comedy by brothers Karel and Josef Čapek, it follows a drifter narrator who falls asleep in a forest and dreams of anthropomorphized insects, in an allegory of life after the First World War. Švankmajer’s adaptation is a metatextual narrative about an amateur staging of the play, blended with the process of making the film itself.