In Portugal, in the 60s, the corpse of a man appears on Dog's Beach. The corpse is identified as the major Dantas, a man wanted by authorities after his escape from a military prison where he was awaiting trial for insurrection.

Colonial war in Africa. During a patrol, in the woods, a Portuguese soldier steps on a mine, that will explode when he raises his foot...

Adapted, in our day, from the Isidore Ducasse’s (called Lautréamont) book, Les Chants de Maldoror (The Maldodor's Chants). The film is a cinematic language essay which "tells", in a non-linear narrative, the activity of a consciousness that confronts, relentlessly, with its brightest part as the most obscure.