The film is an exploration of desire, transience and memory through the experience of an exile whose relationship to country, language and history is continually in question. In returning to the city of her past, a traveler imagines looking for lost friends. She finds instead a delirious metropolis of detours where a room threads together hallucination and remembrance; where the city leads her towards a thousand gardens within itself; gardens of bridges, rivers, doorways, factories, where breath, light, the spinning of heat in the skin and flesh are caught and splintered among its folds.