A lonely old man, bored to death because he has no one to talk to, amuses himself by calling things by the wrong names. The table is a carpet, the bed is a picture, and so on ... He ends up forgetting all the right words and shuts up altogether when he realizes what's happened. A short movie based on the short story 'A table is a table' by Peter Bichsel (published by Suhrkamp Verlag 1969)