年轻的画家雅克从乡间搭车前往巴黎。在到达巴黎的那个夜晚，他偶遇了正想投河自杀的玛尔特。雅克救下了她，并陪她回家，他们相约转天晚上再见面。第二个夜晚，雅克和玛尔特交换了彼此的人生故事，在玛尔特的请求下，雅克成了玛尔特和她情人间的信使。然而，那位绝情的情人并没回信，这让玛尔特非常失落。在接下来的两个夜晚，雅克对玛尔特的衷情终于得到回应，玛尔特也向雅克倾诉了爱意。第四个夜晚，正当两人挽手同行时，他们偶遇了玛尔特原来的情人…… 本片改编自费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的短篇小说《白夜》。

　　Enea, Aeneas, pursues the myth that his name bears. He does it to feel alive in a dead and decadent age. He does it in the company of Valentino, a newly christened aviator. Together with the drug dealing and the parties, the two boys share their youth. Lifelong friends, victims and perpetrators of a corrupt world, but moved by an incorruptible vitality. Beyond the boundaries of the rules, on the other side of morality, there’s an ocean of humanity and symbols to discover. Enea and Valentino will soar over it to the furthest extremes. But the drugs and the underworld are the invisible shadow of a story that speaks of something else: a melancholy father, a brother who has conflicts at school, a mother defeated by love and a beautiful girl, a happy ending and a happy death, a palm tree falling on a world made of glass. It is between the cracks of everyday life that Enea and Valentino’s adventure gradually finds reprieve. An adventure that may seem criminal to others, but which for them is, and will be first and foremost, an adventure of friendship and love.

影片讲述了精神病人奋发自强寻找个人价值的动人故事。一个米兰商人丢掉工作后来到来到一家精神病医院工作，在那里他组织精神病人们成立一个合作社并坚定地相信他们都有自尊和自身的价值。尽管遇到了各种各样的困难，他依然鼓励每个人不断学习并能自己养活自己，找到适合自己的角色。整部片子糅合喜剧与悲剧的元素，感人至深。

　　影片讲述了精神病人奋发自强寻找个人价值的动人故事。一个米兰商人丢掉工作后来到来到一家精神病医院工作，在那里他组织精神病人们成立一个合作社并坚定地相信他们都有自尊和自身的价值。尽管遇到了各种各样的困难，他依然鼓励每个人不断学习并能自己养活自己，找到适合自己的角色。整部片子糅合喜剧与悲剧的元素，感人至深。

The lines start with “O Somma Luce” which is the title of the film and also the 67th line of the 33rd canto in “Paradiso” of Dante’s “Divine Comedy” to the end of “Paradiso”.  The film is completed with music and lines instead of emotions and narrations.  This is a recent attempt to combine film with literature.　　The film begins with a black screen and the music of Edgard Varese. The BGM is “Deserts” that was recorded in 1954. After some moments of darkness, the music ends and a middle-aged man sits on a hill, reciting something. He is Giorgio Passerone, an Italian literature professor, and he is reading out of the last part of ‘Paradiso’ of Dante’s Divine Comedy. Jean-Marie Straub expressed how he thinks of Dante through a subtle accent and dialect. The director who had encoded many great artists and musicians including Bach, complete the combination of Dante and Varese, which could seem strange. (Lim Kyung Yong)