Written by Yann Le Gal, the director of the Fritz Lang segment, the project was realized during 2006–07 and premiered in Germany at the Hamburg Film Festival.

The second segment, "The Gaze of a Child", directed by Isild Le Besco, moves to 1924 Chicago in depicting a deeply traumatic moment in the young life of Orson Welles (1915–1985), whose beloved mother dies four days after his ninth birthday.

The third story, "Open the Door, Please", directed by Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige, is set in 1919 France, portraying an incident during the schooldays of Jacques Tati (1907–1982) who, at 12, was 180 cm [nearly 5' 11"], thus distorting the composition of the class photograph being taken with him and his much shorter fellow pupils.

Part four, "The Pair of Shoes", directed by Ismaël Ferroukhi, also set in France, but fourteen years earlier, in 1905, shows Jean Renoir (1894–1979), age 11, vacationing, as usual, at the country estate of his father, renowned painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir, when an encounter with a slightly older peasant boy opens his eyes to the hidden meanings of life in the country and also teaches him about the unfairness of social class divisions.

Story number five, "Short Night", directed by Corinne Garfin and set in 1907, selects a moment in the life of 8-year-old Alfred Hitchcock (1899–1980), a sensitive child with an unsympathetic and authoritarian mother, who, awakening in the middle of a dark and terrifying night in the London suburb of Leytonstone, calls out in fright, with no one to answer his cries.