I'm tempted to see 3 parts in this movie.
In the first part, Winter, a writer, ousider and blasé, travels through a part of the backcountry of USA. His trip ends in the city of New York. He has no connection with society and only perceives the most superficial urban aspects he photographs thinking of writing later about what he photographed.
While he takes pictures, he has no idea of what he will write about what he is photographing. My reading of this is that travelling superficially in the society, without an apriori project does not induce to think anything about this society.
In the second part of the movie, because of the circumstances, Winter finds himself in charge of Alice, a 9-year-old girl. This girl is the daughter of a German citizen who will return to Germany on the same flight of Winter, flight scheduled the next day after they met at the airport.
The girl was initially left in Winter's care for a few hours by the mother herself. Yet, things evolve in such a way that a day or two later, being already in Europe, Winter realizes that the girl was frankly abandoned by her mother, in his hands.
At first, after unsuccessfully searching the girl's family for a day or two, Winter thinks of handing her over to the authorities. But things evolve in such a way that the girl, on her own, comes back to him.
There we enter the final part of the movie, where he decides to assume the responsibility for staying with the girl until he meets someone in her family. Thanks to this awareness he ceases to be the outsider blasé he use to be up to a few days ago and becomes a man capable of assuming the responsibilities that existence puts in his path and to make plans.
While he takes pictures, he has no idea of what he will write about what he is photographing. My reading of this is that travelling superficially in the society, without an apriori project does not induce to think anything about this society.
In the second part of the movie, because of the circumstances, Winter finds himself in charge of Alice, a 9-year-old girl. This girl is the daughter of a German citizen who will return to Germany on the same flight of Winter, flight scheduled the next day after they met at the airport.
The girl was initially left in Winter's care for a few hours by the mother herself. Yet, things evolve in such a way that a day or two later, being already in Europe, Winter realizes that the girl was frankly abandoned by her mother, in his hands.
At first, after unsuccessfully searching the girl's family for a day or two, Winter thinks of handing her over to the authorities. But things evolve in such a way that the girl, on her own, comes back to him.
There we enter the final part of the movie, where he decides to assume the responsibility for staying with the girl until he meets someone in her family. Thanks to this awareness he ceases to be the outsider blasé he use to be up to a few days ago and becomes a man capable of assuming the responsibilities that existence puts in his path and to make plans.