Desecrating destruction and reconstruction of 150,000 meters of film from the 50s and 60s (mostly commercial American cinemascope), bought as waste headed for disposal. Between fires, shipwrecks, natural disasters and all sorts of wars from all times, the stories are fitted together, and the actors are found and «seized» without their even knowing, as a «chance for vindication, for taking those cardboard heroes down off their pedestals» (Grifi). Starring James Stewart, Jennifer Jones, Humphrey Bogart, Bette Davis, Kirk Douglas, Susan Hayward, Marcel Duchamp (moral protagonist), Leslie Caron, Rossano Brazzi, Queen Elizabeth of England, Clark Gable, Deborah Kerr, Victor Mature, Gregory Peck, Henry Fonda, Rock Hudson, Tyrone Power, Gary Cooper and many others.