Nostalgia, the road

A flickering light appears in the sky and falls on the earth. An alien in a documentary road movie builds a sample of the planet. Like an archaeologist, he collects different images and sounds that he encounters along the way. He strangely describes the abandoned objects on the side of the road, the large advertising posters; he stops at gas stations listening to other people’s conversations and watching television. He writes and films a travel diary, talks with dogs, learns to drive and sings in the company of cows. But in that ramble between poetry and reality, he also discovers fear and evil. “At what point did they self-proclaim themselves the owners of everything?”, he wonders as he learns the meaning of the word frontier.