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The anthropologist Ger Duijzings reads his diary from wartime Yugoslavia (1992) while walking the streets of London. His diary entries are echoed and confronted by images of London. The film was shot with seven cameras in real-time and a single continuous take.

In a domestic arena, a woman speaks the words written by Gertrude Stein in 1914: 'A sentence of a vagueness that is violence is authority and a mission and stumbling and also certainly also a prison.' She struggles through words and language, with food and pleasure, regret, misunderstandings, grasping at many things that were lost and out of reach.