A slow, quiet, sad film - the 'white' city signifies depression and loneliness. Ship engine room worker Bruno Ganz gets off at Lisbon and doesn't go back, wanders the city and falls in love with bar girl Teresa Madruga, whilst writing to his wife back home in Germany, Julia Vonderlinn. Becomes somewhat hypnotic. Super 8 footage of girl, city cobbles, a pair of curtains blowing in the wind, the sea. And the final moments - he's on his way home, and there's another girl..
Score by Jean-Luc Barbier wouldn't be out of place in a Mike Leigh film.
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