This French film (with English and German audio tracks) is about Paul Otlet, a Belgian Utopian little known in America. Otlet invented an international classification scheme called Universal Decimal Classification used for books, photographs and other documents. He invented microfilm. He invented the ubiquitous index card catalog used in most libraries. But as he says in the film, "I think in terms of the universal" and his ambitions were much larger. Otlet began organizing existing international organizations into one grand inter-organization -- the Union of International Organizations -- which inspired the League of Nations. His one failure was to build an ultimate World City in Europe, but it was not for a lack of trying.(written by kk: )

乔治·莱特勒是一位微缩模型艺术家。有一天，世界著名、青春不再的老牌好莱坞女星桃乐丝·摩尔邀请他为自己的豪宅别墅做模型。伴随着他制作模型的过程，他对桃乐丝的迷恋程度越来越深。直到有一天，他发现自己能通过模型里的细节来影响现实中的整栋建筑以及周围环境。模型与现实之间的界限越来越模糊，这个性格内向的艺术家逐渐变成“木偶大师”，掌控着他身边人的命运。而这也大大增加了他抱得美人归的可能性……