A man leafs through the book "Words of Chairman Mao Tsetung" - the so-called "Mao Bible". He tears a page out of the book and folds it into a paper airplane, which lands in a bowl of tomato soup. The three-minute short film was made during Harun Farocki's second year of study at the German Film and Television Academy Berlin (dffb). When it was shown during teach-ins in the Audimax of the Free University, it was showered with thunderous applause and boos. The background to these early films is the Godard cult of the first generation of students at the dffb and the "Chinese" films of 1967/68 (from La Chinoise to Le gai savoir).

Loan of the film print with kind support of Stiftung Deutsche Kinemathek.