It depicts a dog being dragged by the hand and the reflection of humans in the dog's eyes, and uses animation techniques to capture the image of a line that starts from the umbilical cord and goes through all the panoramas of life to the hanging rope.
John Pilger returns to Vietnam in 1974. America had withdrawn its ground forces at the beginning of the previous year, he reports, yet the war had not ended.
A collage film, a dialogue between mother and the unborn child, the film can be seen as a personal self-analysis by René Paquot, who dreamily delivers his conflicts with maternal, medical and religious authority.