Can you imagine, if you had never seen a Hollywood movie, what you would think of them? What image would you have, based on these films, about a place you could never visit? In The Fantastic, North Koreans talk about secretly acquired American films which have become for them a passage to another dimension—a fantastic world coming to life in their imagination. Their image of Westerners has been formed on the basis of these videos—which has led to strange, sometimes funny, sometimes distorted assumptions about behavior and culture in the West.