The greatest of the realist writers have cultivated the incredible revelatory power of the apparently banal anecdote, but which, in fact, contains within all the coordinates of issues so broad that they invariably tip over into the abstract unless particularised. Luka Beradze's film is also based on a tragi-comic anecdote: during his 2012 election campaign, the then-president of Georgia, Mikheil Saakashvili, promised the country’s most disadvantaged citizens new teeth at the expense of his party. Many rural residents did not want to miss this unexpected opportunity. But the end of the story is as brutal as it is predictable: the presidential party lost the election, and the next step in replacing the extracted teeth has become yet another relic in the long series of empty electoral promises that plague all democratic systems. Beradze visits a village where a significant number of elders marched against the populist strategies of the former president so as to ascertain the violence with which political hypocrisy has been inscribed on the very bodies of the inhabitants. And yet, after witnessing the director’s subtle and vibrantly tender observation of the everyday life of this space, we are at least left with the seemingly paradoxical impression that this humiliation has restored the villagers' dignity and confidence in none other than themselves and their community. (Liri Alienor Chapelan)