[1] A large group of tourists, complete with guidebooks, pith helmets, and a tour guide, arrive at a rocky landscape dominated by a ruined temple.
As they move on, he sits down and starts drinking extensively from a bottle found among the luggage.
The robed figure summons up various visions: women in classical drapery, posing in tableaux; an ancient festival with dancing Bacchantes; Dionysus himself, riding a donkey; a fountain of fire; and a final tableau of women, one of whom lies down near the footman.
The footman is showering her with kisses when his hallucination comes to a sudden end, and he realizes he is embracing the tired tourist.
The special effects are created with substitution splices and pyrotechnics; the editing is not up to Méliès's usual standard, with the various transformations managed less fluidly than is typical for his films.