Death of a cameraman

1977 – the Sinai Desert. A Swedish journalist, Paul Eldon, is investigating the death of a colleague who disappeared during the Arab-Israeli war ten years before. Only a few fragments of film and soundtracks have survived him, but one of these includes a shot of him at the moment of death. With the help of this visual clue and other information which the gathers, Paul decides to go over the same routes and try to find the place where Eric Nolde die. Thus, he sets out into the desert, travelling through completely uninhabited areas until the comes to an abandoned village which he recognizes as one of the places Nolde passed. He tries to go on southwards, but an even harsher and more forbidding desert makes him become disoriented and insecure. He just manages to return to the small abandoned village and here he discovers the site of Nolde’s death. Nolde, too, had turned back to a town unable to offer him survival. Paul has seemingly come to the end of his search, but he has the feeling that among those deserted buildings someone is still alive, and that that someone, who doesn’t want to be seen, is watching him. Paul sets up a visual trap in order to discover this mysterious presence and is surprised to see the image of a little girl appear on his monitor – an enigmatic and strange presence with whom he wants to communicate, with whom he vainly tries to get in touch. But nothing comes of it; he waits for an impossible contact. New queries arise about the past and the present and also about the unknown dimensions of visual reality.