A diary or collage film ranging from snow in the Catskills with stopovers in Boulder Colorado and San Francisco to Easter in New York flowers and cows in Maine a Caribbean carnival in Brooklyn country fairs with men splitting wood and women weightlifting and a last section with all these combined and more The film is also about Venus two of them actually one a classic Renaissance Venus the other a Nordic Gothic one the Venus of the Broken Trees The music is a collage too ranging from Spike Jones to Hector Berlioz Nuits dEte Ron Padgett