Orphaned at birth, Jean abandons his wife and infant child, believing that he is protecting them from his criminal double life. On the run, his frantic odyssey will bring him back to the fatherhood he was fleeing.

What does it mean, to go to the movies　　Why have people been going for over one hundred years　　I set out to celebrate movie theaters and their manifold magic.　　So I walked in the footsteps of young Paul Dédalus, as if in a filmgoer’s coming-of-age story.　　Memories, fiction, discoveries come together in an irrepressible torrent of pictures.

Desperate to get her family attention, an overworked mother, lie to them about her condition.