It features vignettes of life in Rue Daguerre - a street in Paris, where the filmmaker lived.

Varda was caring for her two-year-old son at the time of filming and could not spend long periods away from her home.

Because of this, the entire film is confined within a 90 metres (300 ft) radius of Varda's home - the length of the electric cables for her equipment.

During a voiceover in the film, Varda explains that the business owners and occupants of Rue Daguerre are her 'types', in reference to typologies both as the photographic style and practices of social classification that Varda was critical of.

[3] At various points the subjects assume formal, static pose as if in mid-19th century photo portraiture.