A cinematic journey into the past, following the items that the absentee family gathered in an apartment in an old tenement house. Everything had a beginning which was the end of something. Time rolls on like a glass ball and it breaks into pieces.
The man drinks a cup of tea and taps the rhythm with his fingers. The insight into his thoughts shows the image of an airplane pilot who parachutes to tropical islands. He spends his life on fantasizing.
A man observes the movement of pawns in a game. Under the board, people work hard at the big mechanism that drives the pawns. The film shows a blind and destructive force that causes and fuels war.
