December 24, 1983, 10:50 p.m.; Julie and her cousins ate too much sugar, and Santa Claus is late. Denis, alone in his car, is anxious about setting foot in his former in-laws’ house to pick up his children.

Lying in bed, she receives a text message from a man she likes. He asks for a photo of her. Dissatisfied with the clichéd shots she takes of herself, she starts a game, pretending to be the illustrious Cindy Sherman, in four photographs from her Untitled Film Stills series.

Looking for a long lost friend, Madeleine talks to a Stalker so that he can take her to «the zone» and help her look into her memories to find him at last. Essay-film hommage to Chris Marker.