The film will juxtapose documentary elements with the fantasique. The film will not only be an exhibition of hyperbolic fantasy characterizations of Hoffman's fairy tales such as the fantasy mermaid origins of the princess but also will be based on a biopic of the author. The script will be based on real events from Hoffman's time as a government clerk gleaned from the author's letters and journals. The puppet film is intended to describe the possibility of the struggles of Hoffman's mental state as an ordinary "copyist in an office, turns around and suddenly sees the noses of his colleagues turn into mouse faces, and a real mouse kingdom reigns under the table." Puppets were also derived from real-life people such as Herman Stepanov the avant-garde art school colleague of Mikhail Shemyakin and Russian poet Alexander Timofeevsky. The timeless theme of creativity in context to rational realism is another concept explored by the film. The script writer had an innate creativity for writing that he unearthed after he switched his profession from architecture. The life situation parallels Hoffman's own life.