Minot, North Dakota
A monotonous landscape unrolls before the stranger´s eyes. Uniform single-family houses line up next to depressing trailer parks, extending into brown plains. The camera rarely comes to rest, as no one would want to stay here longer than necessary. In long tracking shots it glides through the empty streets of Minot, North Dakota, a small town in America´s no man´s land.
From off screen a young person explains emotionlessly that everybody there is for the war while the camera lingers briefly to show a sign with the inscription Support Our Troops.
Then a man´s voice can be heard talking about...