Opens with shots of houses in Kingston surrounding the university. Cuts to an archeaologist searching forindigenous artifacts on a property in Kingston. Afterward shows the journey of an entire house as it is transported through Kingston on a flatbed truck.
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.