Part 1. Main Speaker: Michel Butor. Location: Agnes Etherington Art Centre. Video begins with several members of the Queen's aministrative faculty and the French department standing at a podium somewhere within the gallery thanking Butor for his donations of rare books to the university. After 10 min Butor takes the podium and speaks for the rest of the video, he appears to be doing a reading of a story from a book.
Part 2. Continuation and conclusion of Butor's speech in part 1, the credits feature clips of a post-speech gathering with people talking candidly to Butor.
Part 1. Main Speaker: Helene Cixous. Location: Dunning Hall. Begins with clips of Helene receiving her honourary Doctor of Laws at Queen's. Rest of 60 min is Helene giving a lecture in French at a desk on a stage in front of a large audience.
Part 1. Main Speaker: Michel Butor. Location: Carruthers Hall. Mireille Calle-Gruber begins by introducing Butor, who then lectures for the remainder of the video.
Part 2. Continuation and conclusion of part 1's lecture. Contains several camera cuts which include multiple angles and sweeping shots over the faces of several audience members.
Part 2. Main Speaker(s): Dr David Roy, Kathryn Morgan. Begins with the continuation and conclusion of Dr Roy's lecture. Morgan then speaks on political paradoxes of personal choices. Afterwards, the speakers ask each other questions about their talks. Then the audience asks the speakers questions.