The geologist Lance Hackett is employed by an Australian mining company to map the subsoil of a desert area covered with ant hills prior to a possible uranium extraction. His work is impeded by some aborigines who explain that this is the place where the green ants dream. Disturbing their dreaming will destroy humanity they claim... 电影讲述某矿业公司在澳大利亚内陆沙地采矿,在一次堪探过程中被当地土著用静坐方式阻止。土著说...。黑白密室偵探片,十個角色,一女九男,其中一個是兇手。「過去我沒聽說過這戲,為了拍《8美千嬌》,我看了一遍,令我獲益良多,對那年代的美國電影瞭解得更清楚。」(奧桑)《Marie-Octobre》很寫實,是齣沉重的電影,拍得一板一眼。奧桑往相反方向走 - 輕鬆、非寫實、七彩、諷刺(人物互相指控而來)。 同類克里斯蒂式偵探片,奧桑較喜歡佳咸美頓(Guy Hamilton:《破鏡奇案》(The Mirror Crack'd),《午日奇屍》(Evil under the Sun),還有Sydney Lumet的《東方快車》。《8美千嬌》參照此片最多的是佈景設計,像客廳、書房、睡房、飯廳等。。