The four lovers Hermia (Christine Delaroche), Helena (Claude Jade), Lysander (Michel Ruhl), and Demetrius (Dominique Serina) have fled to a forest near Athens to escape from their parents' marriage plans.
Hoping to solve the lovers' romantic problems, the spirit Puck drops a magical potion into the eyes of the young man he believes to be Demetrius.
The troupe of craftsmen includes the comedy duo Michel Modo and Guy Grosso, who are best known as Berlicot and Tricart from The Troops of St. Tropez-films with Louis de Funès.
Maurice Clavel from the Nouvel Observateur celebrated the work as a perfectly harmonious and aesthetic piece, and compared the ecstasy of images with a galaxy.
Responding to the premiere on German TV, a critic at WDR remarked: "Rather than being accused of having too few ideas, Averty has created a colourful phantasmagoria against which categories like arts, crafts, or kitsch fail."