Experimental film about a TV channel surfer who's trying to simultaneously follow three seemingly separate stories about the murder of a young couple, medieval ambassadors discussing a crisis and two secret agents in hot pursuit.
In a room with a view of picturesque Amsterdam square, the phone rings. A man with a shaved head enters the room and picks up the receiver. Apparently someone has just reminded him that an important TV program is about to begin, because he hurriedly sits in front of the TV set and turns it on by remote control. He swiftly switches channels until he finds the program he was obviously looking for. We see naked bodies of a young man and a woman on the bed, dead. The murderer probably surprised them while they were making love or - click, the channels switch and we are in the middle of a 16th century historical play based on the famous 1533 painting The Ambassadors by Hans Holbein the Younger. The ambassadors of two rival kingdoms heatedly discuss a diplomatic incident which - click, the 'mighty viewer' has decided to switch channels again - and so it goes on, just as we become involved in events on the screen, he abruptly presses the button and we are watching something else. Why is he doing this? Is he trying to discern an order in the seemingly random arrangement of TV channels? Is it possible that the secret agents who are looking for someone on channel 12 are linked with the young couple on channel 7, and they in turn with the ambassadors on channel 3? Why is the quaint Dutch landscape suddenly turned upside down? This puzzle reveals a characteristic shared by all participants; although each of them tries to observe without being seen - they all eventually become objects in somebody's view. Well, except, perhaps, the TV-viewer. The story ends with the agents facing each other in a narrow dark alley, which surprisingly results in their tense saxophone rock off.
