Wim Wenders · 1984 · road

Wim Wenders's 1984 film. A man named Travis walks out of the Texas desert after four years missing, mute and lost, and is collected by his brother. Slowly returning to life, he sets out with his young son on a road trip across the American Southwest to Houston to find the boy's mother - a journey through the vast, neon-lit landscape toward a reckoning with the family he abandoned.

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   The desert

   The empty West Texas borderland out of which the amnesiac Travis wanders after four lost years, mute and disoriented, to be found and slowly coaxed back toward the world by his brother.

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   Los Angeles

   His brother's home in California, where Travis reconnects with the young son he left behind, and the two set out together to find the wife and mother who vanished from both their lives.

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   Houston

   The Texas city where the search ends, in a peep-show booth where Travis finally speaks to the woman he lost - a bittersweet reunion that reunites mother and child but not the family.