Two-part film: France and Egypt. In the first part, Danièle Huillet reads Friedrich Engels' letter about peasant poverty before the French Revolution; in the second part, Bahgatas Elnadis reads excerpts from his book about anti-colonialism and social class difficulties in Egypt. However, the main character is the landscape. According to Huillet: "We were interested in seeing what traces remained and what was erased without a trace." Straub: "The story: difficulties, uprisings, defeats, delays, and expectations, statistics; representation: history, topography, geography, geology, light, lights, wind and clouds, land (transformed, worked by people), traces - erased or still visible - and sky (plenty of sky)." N-13 Film in French and German languages with Lithuanian subtitles.