Darling Child

‘But we are alone, darling child, isolated, other, so fierce the world’s ridicule, we cannot speak or show our tenderness’. This and other writing by Truman Capote provides the subtext to a montage of empty cityscapes, unlived-in rooms and views from windows which evoke the romance and pathos of the city’s transient population as it flits from one hotel to another following its own courses and dreams. The soundtrack is Brian Eno’s Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy.