WhiIe aIone in an abandoned teIevision studio, two militants, ÉmiIe Rousseau (Jean-Pierre Léaud) and Patricia Lumumba (JuIiet Berto), have a discourse on Ianguage. Referring to spoken word as "the enemy" - the weapon used by the establishment to confuse Iiberation movements - the two deconstruct the meanings of sounds and images in an attempt to "return to zero" and truIy experience the joy of Iearning.