Self-Criticism of a Bourgeois Dog

A bourgeois greyhound confesses how he went from filmmaker to quadruped: Because he doesn't get any funding at the moment, JULIAN finds himself forced to take a job as a harvest helper. When he makes the young Canadian CAMILLE believe that this is research for a communist fairy tale film in which she is to play the leading role, she wants to accompany him and Julian spins romantic fantasies. Thus the two end up in the deceptive idyll of an exploitative apple orchard. While Julian suffers from the physical labor and fears the strange roommates in the container barracks, Camille throws herself enthusiastically into the supposed research and befriends HONG and SANCHO, two proletarians in search of happiness. It becomes increasingly difficult for Julian to perform the communist filmmaker, plus a model worker with American dreams gets in his way, a mute monk with magical powers and a crack in the bowl makes an appearance, the plantation owner is accidentally killed, and an attempted revolution ends in perplexity. Then the sparrows in the trees come up with an outrageous plan....