Gogia is a hard-working, quiet, frugal, grouchy man, in short, a typical Kakhetian. He is devastated by the breakage of a qvevri (clay jar) that he brought from afar with great difficulty and calls on Abesalom, a village craftsman to help him to fix it. Absalom fixes the qvevri but he is stuck inside, can’t get out, and becomes an involuntary prisoner. Gogia, neighbors, and even the head of the local militia try everything but can’t free him and eventually they have to break the qvevri.
