一名监狱囚犯被虐待，负责这名囚犯的监狱护士被解雇。全国八卦媒体都在关注“监狱事件”，其中一名记者希望让囚犯康复，并鼓励她讲述背后的真想也许是她“自愿”的。本来应该是一个简单的新闻却变成了一个巨大的丑闻，每个人都想知道到底发生了什么。性故事还是简单的八卦？

一名监狱囚犯被虐待，负责这名囚犯的监狱护士被解雇。全国八卦媒体都在关注“监狱事件”，其中一名记者希望让囚犯康复，并鼓励她讲述背后的真想也许是她“自愿”的。本来应该是一个简单的新闻却变成了一个巨大的丑闻，每个人都想知道到底发生了什么。性故事还是简单的八卦？

Iconic artist and theater director Robert Wilson has created a series of video portraits of celebrities, ordinary people and animals called "VOOM Portraits." Known for his glacier-paced theatrical productions with Tom Waits and Lou Reed, Wilson's now bringing his aesthetic to a video format. The recent developments in HD technology have allowed Wilson to create something like a precise hybrid of still photography and motion pictures. Actors such as Brad Pitt (as a crazy person on the streets in the rain), Isabelle Huppert (as Greta Garbo), Steve Buscemi (as a mad butcher chewing gum on a variety show), Robert Downey Jr. (as a dreaming corpse in a Rembrandt painting), and Winona Ryder (as Winnie, the main female character in Samuel Beckett’s Happy Days, buried up to her neck in sand) were asked to “think of nothing" and move slowly and steadily to collaborate in Wilson's vision of who they might be.

Iconic artist and theater director Robert Wilson has created a series of video portraits of celebrities, ordinary people and animals called "VOOM Portraits." Known for his glacier-paced theatrical productions with Tom Waits and Lou Reed, Wilson's now bringing his aesthetic to a video format. The recent developments in HD technology have allowed Wilson to create something like a precise hybrid of still photography and motion pictures. Actors such as Brad Pitt (as a crazy person on the streets in the rain), Isabelle Huppert (as Greta Garbo), Steve Buscemi (as a mad butcher chewing gum on a variety show), Robert Downey Jr. (as a dreaming corpse in a Rembrandt painting), and Winona Ryder (as Winnie, the main female character in Samuel Beckett’s Happy Days, buried up to her neck in sand) were asked to “think of nothing" and move slowly and steadily to collaborate in Wilson's vision of who they might be.

When 9 year old Daniel is killed in an act of domestic violence, his estranged best friend forms an unlikely friendship with a woman fifty years her senior who helps her come to terms with his death.

Palestinian women, the often-forgotten victims of the Israeli-Palestinian war, are here given a voice by Jocelyne Saab. 　　The film was commissioned by Antenne 2 (France), but it was censured while still in the editing stage and never shown. This print was specially made for this retrospective by the conservation centre at Cinemateca Portuguesa.