An academia-noir and armchair mystery in the lineage of Jorge Luis Borges and Umberto Eco. The life of hyper-literate philosopher Béatrice Courte is interpolated with the (allegedly) true story of the “chronovisor”, a device built in Italy in the 1950s that can photograph the past. A documentary bricolage of books, cassettes, newspapers, magazines, and VHS tapes constitutes the film’s center of gravity. Around it orbits the fictional story of Béatrice, whose usually respectable research interests verge on the occult sciences as the enigmatic “chronovisor” begins to occupy all her thoughts. Presented at the International Film Festival Rotterdam.