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Summary

The film is composed of 16 loosely connected episodes, presented in 91 static shots across roughly 30 locations on multiple continents - including an island in the Western Pacific, a reading room in New York, a ceramics factory near Beijing, and a runway in Niger. In puristically composed tableaux, it observes human actions, work processes, and cultural contexts without following a continuous narrative. The episodes revolve around questions of knowledge and perception, colonial legacies, power structures, appropriation, and the encounter with the unfamiliar. 

Recurring motif is the giraffe, appearing in different contexts as a linking element between the fragments, without being assigned a fixed symbolic meaning. Through its editing, the film weaves a network of connections between situations that are independent in both time and geography. It explores the simultaneity of multiple realities and reflects on how history is passed on - and where understanding reaches its limits.