Filmmaker José Luis Guerin documents his experience during a year of traveling as a guest of film festivals to present his previous film. What emerges is a wonderfully humane and sincere portrayal of the people that he meets when he goes off the beaten track in some of the world's major cities.

This remarkable companion piece to In the City of Sylvia offers a compendium of images recorded by Guerín in Strasbourg while searching for the traces of a (fictional?) brief encounter some years earlier with a young woman named Sylvia.

迫于改革计划的压力，在一片城区里开始了居民楼群的建筑。“当这里还是年轻人们的足球场地的时候，我们就住在这，我们想要知道这新建筑的特性。在这片土地上，我们找寻到了和睦相处、相互认识以及互相串门的方式。这建筑以及周围的一切使我们有了乐趣。在建筑过程中，我们可以发现都市风景的变化同时可以折射出人心的变化。而在这变化中，可以观察到世界的回应。在这个基础上，我们拍摄了这部影片。”