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Based on a short story by the American author, Lion Miller, the film tells of a mentally handicapped man who is widely regarded as a hopeless idiot.

Apparently fascinated by scrap metal, he accumulates a pile of it in his back garden and from it builds a structure that can fly. But nobody can discover how. Bombarded by experts, George Worp dismantles his machine and retires again to his own world.