Une genèse d’images éparses et glam se succèdent: figures de papier glacé malmenées et paysages oniriques. Jusqu’à l’apparition (simiesque) d’un modèle et de sa photographe. Ensemble, elles joueront au martyr et au démiurge. Elles tenteront d’atteindre la grâce dans un monde aux surfaces mouvantes.

During his acceptance speech for a lifetime achievement award, Nicolas Chauvin - farmer-soldier, veteran of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, and father of chauvinism - embarks on a grand monologue, sending him back in time and space.

An abandoned seaside resort. The shooting for a fantasy film about the end of an era wraps up. Two women, both members of the film crew, one an actress, the other a director, Apocalypse and Joy, are on the verge of concluding their love affair.