In 1997, French producers Carole Scotta and Caroline Benjo, in tandem with the television network Channel 7, commissioned eight noted international filmmakers to each make a short feature that in some way concerned the coming millennium; this set collects the eight films created in response to those requests. In Hal Hartley's The Book of Life, Jesus arrives in New York City to destroy the Seven Seals -- which are now being stored in a computer. La Primera Noche de Mi Vida (aka The First Night of My Life) by Miguel Albaladejo concerns an expectant couple whose car is stolen by thieves en route to a party, while the woman's father attempts to catch up with his daughter. In Tsai Ming-Liang's Dong (aka The Hole), a plumber accidentally gives a customer a new perspective on his neighbors, as an epidemic sweeps Taipei. La Vie Sur Terre (aka Life on Earth) by Abderrahmane Sissako is a mock documentary that explores life in an African village that has been exposed to little 20th century technology. Walter Salles Jr. and Daniela Thomas collaborated on the film Meia Noite (aka Midnight), in which an escaped convict and a speech therapist are unexpectedly thrown together in the midst of New Year's celebrations in Rio. Laurent Cantet's Les Sanguinaires concerns a French travel agent attempting to get away from it all, only to find his problems travel with him. Tamas et Juli (aka Tamas and Juli) by Ildiko Enyedi follows the romance of a kindergarten teacher and a coal miner, from mid-summer to December 31 of 1999. And The Wall by Alain Berliner looks into the future as a wall is constructed in Belgium that separates the French- and Flemish-speaking parts of the country; the wall bisects a deli run by a man fluent in both languages.