As a painter in the court of King Carlos IV, Goya - played by the great Lithuanian actor Donatas Banionis (The Red Tent, Solaris) - has attained wealth and reputation. He believes in King ...

The poet Tom-X meets the vagrant and former scientist Belotti, who has developed the formula with four colleagues. According to Belotti, he is encoded in a poem of which he only knows a single verse.

In 1700s Austria, a witch-hunter's apprentice has doubts about the righteousness of witch-hunting when he witnesses the brutality, the injustice, the falsehood, the torture and the arbitrary killing that go with the job.