The film's plot is episodic, with Sybilla running freely about the village and countryside, observing different people, and sometimes entering their homes uninvited.

Although she is often accompanied by Mickey, who is close to her own age, she develops a strong crush on his 41-year-old father, Alexander (Yevgeni Sidikhin), who is an astronomer.

As the ship enters the river and finally reaches open water, Mickey's voice-over repeats, stating that he received only 73 of the promised kisses.

Todd McCarthy, reviewing the film for Variety, complained about "the cloying, overdone sense of whimsy that dominates the picture."

Although he praised Kuchanidze's portrayal of Sybilla as a character who "has a confidence and physical assertiveness well beyond her years," he still found her actions "tiresome after a while" and that the director and her screenwriter husband "allow their film to be defined by the randomness of the “crazy” episodes rather than exercising discipline over them to bring cohesion and meaning to the picture.