An owl""s huge eyes frighten her.Flying bats scare her.Craggy trees seem to reach out and pull at her, snagging her clothes.She falls into a dark pit and a dark body of water, where the shapes of fallen logs change into alligators.There is little communication between Jeffrey and his mother - she is immersed in her own fantasy world.Peggy""s legs from her un-seen, sleeping frame are seen poking out from behind a stage flat: "You don""t have to wait.]The film is composed of four episodes.Three of the major sections are subtitled:The Dawn of ManA primeval ape man, in the year 4,000,000 BC, makes a breakthrough - becoming endowed with intelligence after experiencing a mysterious black monolith.