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A rare gem of cinematic storytelling that weaves docudrama, fictional reenactment, and experimental photography into a powerful, reflective work on the early days of German cinema. The film tells the story of the Skladanowsky Brothers, the German-born duo responsible for inventing the "bioskop", an early version of the film projector.

Eleonore is a very beautiful girl of twenty, bruised in her flesh by dramatic circumstances. In the past, her parents disappear in an accident, during which she loses an arm.

Jean, a respected theater actor, leads a dissolute life. Separated from the mother of his child, he devotes most of his time to work, alcohol, and women. Sylvain in full adolescence, feels the need to get closer to his father. On a whim, both of them leave to join an old friend of Jean, Bob the American, who lives on an isolated ranch. From then on, they will try to apprehend each other, with clumsiness, hesitation and sometimes even violence.

Twenty young boys and girls chose to fight their dropout from school with the weapons of art and creation. They revisit their life path and give a new meaning to their future.

At the end of World War 2, in France, Louise, whose husband is still a prisoner in Germany, falls in love with Gary, a black American soldier who has just arrived in her village with his regiment. Blanche is the teenager in the family and has fallen for a German soldier who has been killed by the Americans. The two young women are going to have to deal with the rumors, accusations and despisal from their own community: Louise, because she fell in love with a colored man and Blanche, for fraternizing with the enemy. Other incidents happen, involving young American soldiers, among them Gary's best friend, Sidney.