史特斯明史奇原是备受爱戴的大学教授与知名的前卫派画家。当史达林提出「社会主义式的写实主义」,且被波兰当局奉为圭臬,要求上行下效时,他站在异议的那方,结果不但被撤销教职、剥夺艺术家身份,甚至连糊口的生存权也尽遭践踏。而自诩为小螺丝钉的人们,成了国家机器的暴力帮凶。。An anthropologist from an alien planet provides voice-over commentary for a documentary look at human courtship, mating, and reproduction: "complex, perverse, tragically beautiful: the earthbound human." The commentary gets some of the details comically wrong (explaining the slap on a newborn's back: "they don't like the looks of the child so they beat it"), but gets right the ...。