在小男孩卡密尔的九岁生日当天，他原本期待母亲会陪他出去玩耍，但是忙碌的母亲没有赶上和卡密尔约定的时间，当他们终于碰到面，母亲愕然听到小男孩说：请带我去找我真正的妈妈。

本以为是小孩子的别扭情绪，却在卡密尔的指引下，找到了小男孩的另一个母亲，一位两年前遭逢丧子之痛的小提琴教师，教师称男孩为保罗，为他张开了欢迎的臂膀，小孩也自然而然地接受了他的新身份，一切似乎都是理所当然，彷佛她才是小男孩真正的妈妈。随著故事开展，种种不可解的迷团渐渐有了些头绪，真相到底如何？

妻子過世後，文學教授因悲傷而鬱鬱寡歡。他試圖維持日常生活，卻徒勞地困在死亡的陰影裡。不論晝夜，妻子的形影始終縈繞不去；破碎難分的意識，如同夢遊者或鬼魂般，穿梭於拼貼跳躍的敘事中，在理智邊緣徘徊。眼前看似穩固的事物逐漸淡去，記憶與現實之間的界線越來越模糊……。

This mystical short film has a narrator telling us about a "strange philanthropical secret society" that has been in existence for seven years at a certain building. Its members, Philokinetes, devote their energy and money to studying and promoting a fragment of film they call 'The Film to Come'. The fragment runs for twenty-three seconds and is in a loop. Thus projected, it can last for hours, days, even years. Apparently, after viewing this fragment one can become somewhat enlightened, and in a deep hypnotic state, brought about by over-repetition of the revealing fragment. As the narrator says: "Once you reach this state, you can see, so they say." The next section of the film is a watershed: for the narrator is now a different voice and telling us that the fragment has been stolen and the Philokinetes were now in a deep identity crisis. There is a large book of apocryphal wisdom shown called 'Double Book of the Dancing Mysteries' that the sect read. Knowledge derived from this book of "mumbo-jumbo and untruths" leads the Philokinetes to believe that cinema had a life independent to humans. Cinema, they said, is "the primeval soup of a new life form. Therefrom were to emerge pure screening creatures, or non topical beings. Vast sets of loops, from which everyone would own a short endless return to self." Later the Philokinetes claim that the lost fragment was found by the narrator's daughter, an event which sparks off feasts and banquets which lasted for weeks. The narrator's voice changes again as he dies whilst overlooking two priests undergoing a solemn leafing through the Double Book, after they have took a vow of illiteracy. The narrator's soul has now run away to a cinema, but more importantly, it had become a part of the fragment entitled The Film to Come.
Shot mainly in black and white, Ruiz's familiar shooting style and camera angles are evident in his esoteric and interesting nine minute film.

Two narrators, one seen and one unseen, discuss possible connections between a series of paintings. The on-screen narrator walks through three-dimensional reproductions of each painting, featuring real people, sometimes moving, in an effort to explain the series' significance.

跟随着导演观众来到巴黎展开一场充满悬念的旅程。一个拥有四个不同名字与身份的男子引出四段风格迥异的故事：有关爱情、欲望、犯罪和时间。
第49届戛纳电影节(1996)　 主竞赛单元-金棕榈奖(入围)　 拉乌·鲁兹

索罗姬（凯瑟琳·德纳芙 Catherine Deneuve 饰）刚刚失去了自己的儿子，与此同时，她亦结下了一个案子，成为了一个名为雷内（梅尔维尔·珀波 Melvil Poupaud 饰）的年轻人的辩护律师，雷内被控告谋杀了他的姑妈珍妮（凯瑟琳·德纳芙 Catherine Deneuve 饰）。
在分析了种种的线索之后，索罗姬坚信雷内是无罪的，在索罗姬的不懈努力之下，雷内终于获得了无罪宣判。神秘的精神病医生的出现让这宗案件再度隐入了迷雾之中，乔治（米歇尔·皮寇利 Michel Piccoli 饰）和克里斯蒂（安德烈·瑟韦林 Andrzej Seweryn 饰）亦认为这宗案件并没有就此结束。当一切的秘密都逐渐被呈现在众人面前时，索罗姬是否能够意识到，自己被卷入了一个阴谋之中。

这部电影围绕肥皂剧的概念展开。 它的结构基于这样的假设：智利的现实不存在，而是肥皂剧的合奏。