「勝手にしやがれ」のゴダール監督が、フランスの5月革命の終結後、創造集団“ジガ・ヴェルトフ集団”の作品として製作し、実験的な試みがなされた前衛的作品。イタリア語でしゃべる騎兵隊の将官、彼に暴行されるインディアンの青年、インディアンの監察官、娼婦らが登場し、西部劇の設定を借りて階級闘争と民主主義の勝利が語られる。（allcinema）
Hoping to shake up the complacent Italian Communist Party, a group of leftist radicals sends an incendiary letter to a major evening newspaper declaring their intention to volunteer to fight American troops in Vietnam as a political statement against the war.
An island has been decimated by a volcanic eruption and the few survivors escape to a nearby island. Led by Rutolo, they know that their new home is equally susceptible to such a catastrophe via its own volcano, but they are unable to convince the current inhabitants of Island #2 to flee with them to a mainland.
During a Post-Apocalyptic period in the near future the majority of the European population has been wiped out by some sort of undefined plague. Cino and Dora, a young couple, are rounded up by what constitutes the authorities on an isolated temporary base. They are examined and given antibiotics which will protect them for six months, told to pick out a deserted house to live in the area, and use that time to conceive a child.
