Marker's most celebrated film is an exploration of emotions in the scientific (and post-scientific) age, dealing with the depths of nostalgia associated with memory, time, and time-travel. Constructed from still photographs and frozen shots, La Jetée is set in post WW III Paris. There, an underground band of survivors become despots in their attempt to reach the future as a way out of the radioactive present. Marker's hero is the helpless astronaut on these voyages through time. His vivid memory of a childhood image enables him, after much suffering, to journey back in time instead of forward, for a brief, perfectly ordinary but glorious love affair with a woman he had seen before the holocaust. The film's one flicker of movement becomes a sensuous, joyous burst.