The film begins with an animated version of director Terry Gilliam reading from a children's storybook.

Eventually the chain of interconnected people reaches a cleaning lady who is involved in a search-and-destroy mission against a colony of cockroaches, one of whom is named Don.

The film then loops back to Don, replaying some of the earlier events until a gruff voice interrupts the narrator with "You already said that!"

The next segment, entitled "The Albert Einstein Story", revolves around an English man who happens to share the name of the famous physicist, and is "quite interesting in his own right".

The curtains draw to a close with the sound of a jeering audience, and the words "The End – Yours truly, Terry Gilliam" appear.