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Like all his post-Goon work, the film relies heavily on surrealism, but Petulia-Romance achieves this, he feels, in a particular direction: "Not through the exaggeration of detail and incident, but by means of the distortion of time." Instead of flashbacks, there will be a series of flash-forwards, from almost subliminal, brief glimpses of images that appear later in the film to whole sequences outlining a character's expectations. "The film," he says, "is extremely difficult and complex in that it requires the audience to think ahead. But this is indeed the natural way people think."