I have seen films that have sequences of still images, for example, the end of Night of the Living Dead with the torture of a black man, and the opening of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre with the skulls and bones. But I don't think I have ever seen a films, even a short one, where the whole story is told almost entirely in still photographs, until I watched this film, featured in the book 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die. Basically, told through still mostly still photographs (with only a woman in bed blinking that moves) and narrated by Jean Négroni, a Man (Davos Hanich) is held prisoner in post-apocalyptic Paris in the aftermath World War III. Scientists are researching time travel, using test subjects to different time periods in the past and future to change the present, but they have difficulty finding the right subject to handle the shock treatment. Finding the man though, with an obsession for the past, and specifically the memory of a pre-war childhood Woman (Hélène Chatelain) before an incident happened, a person falling to the ground and lots of screaming people. The experiment transports him to the pre-war period, and the Man meets the Woman and they get much closer together, and during this romance the Experimenter (Jacques Ledoux) and his team try to send him to the future. In the future he meets technologically advanced people who give him a power unit to regenerate those in society destroyed, and when he returns his mission has been a success, with the people of the future contacting him once again. They tell the Man that they can help him escape his imprisonment, but he instead wants to return to the past and be with the Woman, but when he is transported he is unable to find her, and he is followed to be killed. In the end the Man finally realises the incident he witnesses as a child and haunted his memories through to adulthood, it was his own death. The World War III concept makes it an interesting story, and being told with nothing more than stills makes it an interesting watch, I will admit bits of it were difficult to understand, but overall it is a different short classic science-fiction. Very good!