How about "In the White City" by Alain Tanner? When the ship he works on reaches Lison, Bruno Ganz gets off it and whiles away days and grapples with time and with his own identity in Portugal while sending Super8 films that are kind of a diary to his wife in Germany. _________________________________________________________________ Add photos to your e-mail with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/featuredemail