Posthumous portrait of Chris Marker (1921-2012), the elusive French filmmaker- essayist, traveller, photographer and cat-lover. Two filmmakers, Jean-Marie Barbe and Arnaud Lambert, propose a chronological journey through his thoughts and cinematographic work: from the cartography of new political utopia in the 1950s, from Siberia to La Habana, to its relentless defeat, starting with Chile; from his review of cinéma-verité (ciné / ma verité, in its translation) to the great television experience in L'Héritage de la chouette, which traces a journey through classical Greece, organised into twelve words.