The story is not just an anecdote about a girl who trusted more than she thought, but mainly and above all, a parable, a brilliant metaphor about the raging, glittering and funny phenomenon of the 1960s. The viewers become actors in the event, participants in the ball that was so eagerly anticipated and then everybody regretted going there. They laugh their heads off, toast in stale beer and then – eventually – bite their lips in embarrassment...