On location in Portugal, a film crew runs out of film while making a black-and-white science fiction movie about survivors on a post-apocalyptic Earth, titled The Survivors. The producer is nowhere to be found and director Munro attempts to find him in hopes of being able to finish the film.

Largely improvised and shot on the run, Wender’s lovingly cinephilic film-within-a-film was made in parallel to Raúl Ruiz’s The Territory, with appearances from cult directors Sam Fuller and Roger Corman. Despite its spontaneous conception, Wenders won Venice Film Festival’s prestigious Golden Lion.