Los Angeles is divided into many time zones and is delimited from the rest of America by rings of fires and firefighting. Born in the fevered imagination of a newspaper columnist, the hoax film takes on an independent existence. Every month, a flotilla of Chinese junks delivers its mysterious cargo to the city. In a concrete cube, nicknamed Bunker, they are making a porn film “White Whisper”. All this and much more is highlighted in the flash of the Mnemoscope - an optical device disguised as a modern monumental sculpture, designed to bring back lost memories.