An attempt to bring the work of surrealist artists to a wider public. The plot is that of an average Joe who can conjure up dreams that will improve his customer's lives. This frame story serves as a link between several avant-garde sequences created by leading visual artists of their day, most of whom were emigres to the US during WWII.

Jack Bittner
as Joe / Narcissus

Dorothy Griffith
as

Libby Holman
as

Josh White
as

Stanley Kubrick
as Theatre Extra

Max Ernst
as Le President

Norma Cazanjian
as

Doris Okerson
as

John La Touche
as The Gangster

Ethel Beseda
as Mrs. A.