A pair of scissors cuts a piece of paper into a vaguely female outline, which slowly develops into a print/photograph of a woman. She comes to life and dances a little ballet. She freezes, a sheet of paper falls behind her forming a backdrop, a brush appears and begins to paint a hat and an apron onto her, along with a background. She comes to life again as a flower-seller and sits down on the ground. A man comes along with a squeeze box and begins to play; she gets up and dances. The action freezes again, while the scissors cut out a gypsy costume and a hand applies it to the woman's image with glue. She comes back to life in the gypsy dress and dances. The woman turns into a Graeco-Roman statue, which slowly revolves before being smashed by a hand wielding a hammer. The pieces come to life and rejoin themselves, transforming back into the woman and then, finally, into a pair of scissors.