An alert, childlike gaze that is interested in everything: Tardigrades and trees, fire, the universe and the Big Bang: he takes everything as it is, everything is important. An age-wise view of stones that knows about their crystalline structures and tries to measure the temporal dimensions of their existence. A small boy and an older woman share their view of the world, the radio reports on the war and the things of life are miraculously placed in a new relationship between microscopic beings and the age of the universe.