Based on the negatives of a film shot in India in wealthy bourgeois circles in the late 1920s, when anticolonial tensions were running high: the filmmakers deconstruct the images, repeat them, reframe them, colourise them, searching for the behaviour and attitudes of Westerners in the East. The film comprises two parts; street scenes that seem like a catalogue of poverty, and a show of the elegance, opulence and power of colonial rule. Giovanna Marini sings texts by Henri Michaux and Mircea Eliade that help to reveal the violence of colonial domination under the harmony of “exotic” images.