导演Valentin在乡下拍摄一部极为放荡的古装电影的期间突然人间蒸发了。当地警方随即介入调查，而剧组在停工数日后还是恢复了拍摄工作，只不过一切却都在往诡异的方向偏离。Robin是剧组的摄影师也是导演的男朋友，他遵守诺言，来到了墨西哥太平洋海岸。

In 1877, in a watch factory in a valley in north-western Switzerland, Josephine produces balance spindles, tiny parts that ensure the agitation movement ("unrueh") of the mechanical watches. She soon grows uneasy with the organisation of work and possession in the village and its factory and joins the anarchist worker movement of the local watchmakers. There she meets Piotr Kropotkin, a moony Russian traveller. The two of them meet at a time when new technologies such as time measurement, photography and the telegraph are transforming the social order and anarchist discourse is addressing emerging nationalism. During a walk in the woods, Josephine and Piotr ask themselves whether time, money and the government are not all but fictions.