Rutt Deen

India: a Hindu woman buys a bowl of tea from a street-vendor; she squats down and drinks; a beggar girl approaches in small, hesitant steps until the woman hans her the rest of her drink. The camera pans to the sky to catch a plane in take-off, engines howling.

Arrival at Vienna-Schwechat airport. A photographer returns from a trip on which he has taken photographs for a book on "The English in India". But this is something the audience does not learn until later. First, we witness the painstaking record of his arrival, from arrival lounge to passport control, baggage...