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: )

Virgil Ioan, 一个年轻的罗马尼亚电视台记者, 来到法国探访Constantin Dolinescu（60年代与罗马尼亚社会主义当局政见不合的著名作家，曾被齐奥塞斯库－罗领导人，东欧剧变中被秘密枪决，判刑入狱，后经民主人士的活动，释放，随即离开令他心碎的非自由祖国，前往法国过着半流放的生活。1987年之后，这位曾经被西方民主人士奉为上宾，法国媒体也曾大肆报道的人物消失在公众的视线中。他还在法国吗？他去了哪里？他是否停止了文学创作？他曾经希望投入电影导演的行当，那两部成品为何永不见天日？他与法国文艺界的关系又是怎样？他会有着何种神秘的感情生活...？？？怀着这种种疑问，前文提到的充满热情和坚持的记者希望找到合适的线索拍摄一部记录片将一个真实的Constantin Dolinescu呈现在今天自由化的罗马尼亚人眼前，最终的结局是有点悬念与荒谬的...大家慢慢欣赏吧 注：罗马尼亚从人种学上与法国同源，皆属拉丁人种，语言与文化上与法国亲近，加上法国自由的气息，片中的反叛作家选择了这个从地理位置上并不相近的国家避难。