In this film, heavily inspired by Man Ray's collage work L'enigme d'Isidore Ducasse (1920) and the poetic energy of Lautreamont's Les Chants De Maldoror, Franco films a number of incunabulae (a swing machine, an umbrella), ancestors of fecund inspirational symbols for modern and contemporary art, which hold a privileged position among the objects described by Lautreamont.