This exceptional film about the passage of time, the ephemeral nature of perfection, and the intensity of youth started from amateur film shot by the director’s mother during a visit to China in 1968 - the year in which in France student movements reclaim Maoism as the religion of equality, in Prague an unexpected spring defrosts the Stalinist monolith, and in Brazil a military dictatorship congeals into a solid iron fist. Echoes of Chris Marker, whose iconic Joli Mai is actually quoted in this compilation film, suggest that this is in fact a meditation on the power of cinema to capture the fleetingness of existence, to show emotional truths unfurl in time, and to stop, even if for only a frame, the inevitable fall from grace to which each of us is fated.