Anouk Ferjac

A poetic Quebecois seeks his roots in France, where he becomes involved with two troubled women.

Alain Resnais's ingenious melding of sci-fi and romance centres on Claude Ridder, who, following a failed suicide attempt, is asked by some scientists to participate in a mysterious time-travel experiment. Travelling back in time one year for just one minute, he becomes lost in a continually shifting mosaic of temporal episodes.