"Rezo, Gaumarjos! (Victory!)" he shouts. "In Qartulad tradition, a thief who steals during a supra must be forgiven if he offers a better toast."

Rati translates the problem: "Rezo, the casino owner in Batumi, took everything. Our money. Our pride. And he insulted Nino's khachapuri recipe."

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."

The plan, told in the measured, poetic cadence of Georgian storytelling:

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.

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.

As police arrive, the crew simply walks out the service entrance, blending into the crowd of grape-treaders singing folk songs.

When a Tbilisi nightclub owner double-crosses his old partners, they assemble a crew of Georgian fixers, winemakers, and former Soviet cyber-experts to pull off the most elegant heist in the history of the Black Sea resort town, Batumi.