Jason Goldframe, a film producer, is always the best and the first! It's his ambition to be the very first to achieve the inconceivable: making a 270mm film. Obsessed as he is, he even wants to be faster than his shadow. One evening he succeeds…

A mighty state is experimenting with a new nerve gas that doesn't kill, but numbs people. By accident some of the gas is dropped on a peaceful country 'Nebelux', where suddenly strange mutations appear.