In Ancient Times, the classic hero returned home and was rewarded with Glory. Nowadays, a trap awaits the returning hero: he is convinced failure is unavoidable.

Film originally shot between 1990 and 94 in Super 8, and which has been restored in 2022 for its premiere at the B-series Festival, B-Retina. A man runs desperately through a forest. He runs away from something or someone, but falls off a cliff before we know what or who is after him. Two years later, several seemingly unrelated events set in motion a gear where death, legends and madness have their own names.

Augustine of Hippo dreams of time paradoxes and spiritual decadence of a civilization, which could as much be that of the 4th Century A.D. as our own.