A man is sitting on a bench in the middle of the desert. The world around him starts to develop and prosper rapidly, deserts turning to pastures and then to modern buildings. The man watches these developments with the change of generations until global wars break out. Eventually, all developments vanish and the scene goes back to the desert
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