An account of events tying the trajectory of Jean-Luc Godard between Hollywood and Maputo at the end of the seventies, my mother being stuck in Switzerland, my current research, repelling magnets, and why failures are not what they seem. Presented at the show "*****WT in LA in February 2017 at HMCT, Art Center, Los Angeles. The publication includes a copy of Les Cahiers du cinéma Nr. 300 with added footnotes as my voice-over, inserted pictures, a copy of the script of Godard’s unmade film "The Story", and a postface added after watching "King Lear" months later.