1969: after performing the first spacewalk in 1965, Alexei Leonov became the first man to set foot on the Moon. At the same time, an American journalist, completing his article on the Santa Maria oil accident, looks back on his family heritage and the broken line of the Kennedys.

Through a selection of archive images, both real and manipulated, Reboot highlights the importance of choice and the narrative value of historical events. Guided by an artificially generated voice-over, the succession of images examines the fabric of reality at work during the Cold War, a vehicle for bloc ideologies whose geopolitical influence still imposes a dominant world order today. By mixing historical details and fictional anecdotes, the video borrows an omniscient narrative from the photo novel genre, and reveals the different states of mind of the protagonists, whose roles as historical and secondary characters have been reversed.