影片的第一个镜头是几个充气的气囊；接着是穿着短裙的芭蕾舞女演员，然后是歌剧院广场的前景和拳击手挥舞剧院的动作。歌剧院广场，一个达达派艺术家在沉思，要烧掉歌剧院。于是，火柴划着了。拳击手挥起双拳再一次向大歌剧院打去。庙宇的立柱。在高楼的平顶上，达达派艺术家曼·雷伊和画家杜尚正在下棋。突然，喷射而来的水搅乱了棋局。女舞蹈演员的舞步。女人的脸和水母的眼。一颗鸟蛋在喷泉吐出的水柱中蹦跳。芭蕾舞团的主要演员扮成罗尔猎人出现在屋顶上。他瞄准鸟蛋。蛋仿佛在水柱中起舞。开枪。蛋壳破裂。一只白鸽破壳而出。达达派画家端着猎枪。瞄准、射击，猎人应声跌落。一辆由骆驼拖曳的灵车载着死者的棺木，缓缓驶在巴黎的郊区大路上。灵柩上放着饼干花环，送葬者挂着哀恸的神情。灵车越走越快，终于狂奔起来。跟在车后的绅士、太太们疯狂追赶。最后，灵车撞到墙上，棺木掀翻，死者穿着魔术师的装束，从棺木里爬出。他挥动魔杖。追来的人群立即消失，他又点了一下自己的胸口，他也倏忽同隐去。

"Le Voyage Imaginaire" belongs to the most avant-garde first period of the frenchified film director René Clair. This is from his silent and experimental film period of which this German Count is very fond despite Herr Clair being a descendant of those revolutionaries who treated so badly the aristocracy of that country some years ago.
"Le Voyage Imaginaire" is full of suggestions in which different genres are mixed (avant-garde, comedy, surrealism) without any real connection. It's a really bizarre film that relates the complicated relationship between three bank clerks (and their boss) for the typist girl that works in the same office. Herr Clair creates a dream world which plunges the audience into a universe full of fantasy. There are lady fortunetellers, fairies, classic story characters and even modern heroes such as "Charlot" (for the frenchified people) not to mention the "Notre Dame" roofs and the museum "Grévin". To this German Count it seems to be a kind of deluded fairy tale, extravagant, anxiously exaggerated and very rich in film ideas.
That mixed dream world benefits from using all the special effects known at that time (slow motion, double exposure, optical effects) combined with simple backgrounds that are perfect for the formal aspect of the story. It all creates an unreal atmosphere, incredible and dumbfounding at times. Herr Clair directed a very special film that is thought-provoking and fascinating.