The city: Lisbon. The problem: A silent movie abandoned by its director. The solution: A sound engineer, Phillip Winter, is called in for help. Winter’s task: Record the missing sounds and save the film. Winter’s handicap: A broken leg. Even worse: The director of the movie has disappeared.

Wim Wenders’ postcard to cinema presents the tale of a German sound engineer—played by Wenders’ habitué Rüdiger Vogler—embarking on aimless travels around Lisbon. A self-referential musing about film and the (difficult) art of filmmaking—including a monologue by Portuguese master Manoel de Oliveira!