Wanted by the police, the survivor of shipwreck reaches a sandy shore just as his ship goes down and his strength has just about left him. The island seems deserted and the architecturally extravagant buildings in which the survivor seeks food more than company appear abandoned. During the following days a beautiful woman attracts him: her name is Faustine, one of many woman and men almost forced to follow the vampire-like scientist Morel. The fugitive is timid at first when speaking with Faustine, but he soon realizes that no one notices him. While his Kafkaesque distresses multiply, key elements start to surface more and more. The people the castaway follows and with whom he interacts are not real. They are the complete projection that Morel has been able to record with his invention, stopping not only an image or sound, but everything that involves the five senses. Since the machine?s rays are fatal, the protagonists of the week vacation are dead. Now, when the sun?s rays set the mechanism in motion, the “dearly departed” repeat gestures, speeches, lifeless dances and banal ceremonies of the listless, characterless bourgeois. Is this immortality? No, because Morel?s dream to freeze the human soul locked up in the context of daily life, was his only error… Desperate and without any means of survival, the castaway also gives into temptation maybe to see the enigmatic Faustine once again, maybe to forever consecrate himself to future. He places himself in front of the machine?s lens, but then changes his mind and destroys it. However by then it?s too late even for him, consumed by the venomous rays born of a plan to turn man into divine eternity.