O, Verzamelen van Eieren in Weerwil van de Tijd plot
From the translucent tawny eggs of the Tibetan bearded vulture to the egg of the British guillemot with its Jackson Pollock-like splashes – German ornithologist Max Schönwetter (1874-1961) collected them all. He made oology, as the science of the egg is called, his life's work. Schönwetter ordered the world of the egg while chaos broke out in the world around him on the eve of the Second World War. Archive images of the turbulent outside world contrast with re-enacted images from Schönwetter's study. The Nazis march in the street, inside he measures the eggs of the eastern bearded warbler. In this documentary, his correspondence with fellow scientists and collectors sketches the zeitgeist and monomaniac collecting spirit of Schönwetter and his colleagues.