- The film is loosely based on the eassay The Death of the Author by Roland Barthes, in which he states that the author as an individual is inconsequential to the understanding of a work. "The text is a tissue of quotations drawn from innumerable centres of culture....a text's unity lies not in its origin, but in it…
- It's the night before an offensive; a soldier is entrenched in the depths of a tunnel. Outside, war rages, causing the earth to tremble, and the man tries to ready himself for the inevitable. In this animted film, soldiers' bodies become living material, a combination of earth, fire and steel, frozen in death for etern…
