The adventures of Lenin's mummy throughout the 20th century reflects the history of the Soviet Union. This program charts the journey Lenin's embalmed body has made throughout Russia and explores the trend of mummification that has reappeared in recent times. In the 1920s several mausoleums appeared in Red Square. In 1941, before the German army reached Moscow, Lenin's mummy was hidden in the Ural Mountains. In the 1950s many communist politicians were embalmed. Stalin himself was embalmed and for a time shared the mausoleum with Lenin. In October 1961, in the Khrushchev years, the Communist Party ordered that Stalin's sarcophagus be removed from the mausoleum. With the fall of Communism, the mausoleum laboratory went bankrupt and was later resurrected when eternal life became fashionable among Russian Mafia gangsters and nouveaux riches.

Details the relationship of Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, and highlights the place that the couple and Casa Azul took in the days of Communists fleeing to Mexico. Leon Trotsky's exile to Mexico City and Casa Azul affected the couple and their circle. Rare footage of Frida, Diego, Trotsky, and stock footage of Casa Azul and the couple's shared home are mixed to delight fans of art and Frida.

Just before one of the locations for the 1960 film Breathless is about to be demolished 33 years later, journalist Claude Ventura seeks out as many of the surviving participants in the shooting as he can, researches what happened back then, and even travels to Godard's native Switzerland to uncover some more links.