Dato keeps nothing. He returns to the sulfur baths, lights a cigarette, and tells the ghost of his father: "We didn't steal. We just redistributed the poetry."
Dato then delivers a three-minute toast — a masterpiece of Georgian rhetoric — recounting every betrayal Rezo committed, each line ending with a sip of wine. The oligarch's associates laugh. Rezo's pride shatters louder than any glass.
They divide the diamond horn. But instead of cash, each takes one stone to fund a small thing: a new qvevri for Nino's winery, a film archive for Rati, a medical clinic for Lasha's border village.
"Rezo, Gaumarjos! (Victory!)" he shouts. "In Qartulad tradition, a thief who steals during a supra must be forgiven if he offers a better toast."
In the winding, cobblestone streets of Old Tbilisi, where sulfur baths steam under ancient balconies, a man named Dato (the Georgian "Danny Ocean") sits across from Rati (his "Rusty"). They speak not in rapid-fire English, but in Qartulad — Georgian — with its rolling consonants and ancient script.