In a modern, gleaming city, a high-end jewelry store glows with elegant lighting. Keep the camera at a low angle, raising up as if walking into the space for the first time. A wealthy businessman is limited in focus, standing behind a glass display filled with gleaming, brightly colored, beetles, meticulously crafted from metal. Use deep blues and iridescent greens to highlight the sheen of the hardened shells, mimicking the process of anodizing in nature. Everything else is faded into a gray-scale palette. In the background, a muted TV is playing a news report about the economy, hinting at the concept of dollarizing.
Down and to the right is a small, unassuming box made of finely polished rock. The box gives off a subtle glow, suggesting its importance. Inside the box lays a transparent artificial beetle with grains of sand captured inside, reminiscent of psammites, by far the most precious item in the store. As the camera pans up to the businessman’s face, his eyes gleam with the same iridescence as the beetles, but they’re focused on something or someone outside the frame. The scene ends with a slow zoom-out shot of the store, the bustling city in a soft focus in the background.