According to Man Ray, this film was made in strict conformity with Surrealist principles.It opens with a series of apparently unrelated shots: grain on film; flowers moving; drawing pins in negative; points of light - out of focus - which order themselves into lines, a signwriter spelling out incomplete sentences; a prism, reflecting bars of light, rotating at different speeds; car headlights, with a huge single eye superimposed over the radiator between them. As the film progresses the car theme becomes dominant....Individual images are striking for their humor and originality, but Man Ray still apparently felt it necessary to impose a conventionally readable theme - the car ride - to hold the film together.