A highly original take on the city-symphony genre, this vibrant work is a meditation on everyday life in Amsterdam as a microcosm of the contemporary, postcolonial world. Encountering a Moroccan moped courier, a businessman from Chechnya, and a Bolivian immigrant with a newborn baby, the filmmaker follows their stories, always circling back to Amsterdam as the city that unites the different impulses and people. A truly magnificent patchwork of very personal tales, the film is also a penetrating and loving portrait of Amsterdam in the 1990s.