Several episodes, each focusing on a different figure. Towards the end they all come together to replicate the famous painting by Édouard Manet that provides the title.
The protagonist of the film is the Bat living in an old mill and fighting rats and crows. It’s the war fought by disproportioned forces, where the battle is won by cleverness, skill and cunning. Somewhere outside the mill another war is fought.
A story of the good witch Bonycrone living on an isolated island and her friend, a former sailor Captain Drum; and their adventures on the island, on the sea and in town.
