고랭과 고다르의 본격적인 공동작업이 시작된 작품. 서부영화의 장르적 관습을 모델로 하여 전통적인 부르주아 영화의 테크닉과 내용을 조직적으로 해체하면서 그 뒤에 숨어 있는 억압적인 이데올로기를 노출시키는 영화. 이미지와 사운드의 관계에 대한 정치적 질문이 몽타주의 전통적 개념을 전복시키는 형식 실험과 동일하게 진행된다.
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.
