The film unfolds through four interconnected novellas—“Jesters,” “The Jester’s Love,” “The Jester’s Illness,” and “The Last Jester”—all linked by a single narrative arc and recurring central characters.
Taking advantage of his intellectual superiority, the teenager Valya Uspensky subtly and mercilessly takes revenge on others for small and big offenses. The young mathematics teacher Igor Aleksandrovich also falls into the field of his…