Eleven international directors were asked by producer Alain Brigand to record their own/culture/country's reactions to September 11th 2001; such as Iran from Samira Makhmalbaf, France from Claude Lelouch, Japan from Shohei Imamura through to Britain from Ken Loach and America from Sean Penn. Each film lasts exactly eleven minutes, nine seconds and one frame and, when watched with the other ten, shows the diverse effects the event had on the whole world.