Cities of the Plain

The final film from expatriate American filmmaker Robert Kramer who died in France in 1999 Kramer and collaborators tell the somber life story of Ben After leaving his homeland as a youth he is greeted in France by menial jobs in industry In time he opens a fruit market finds a wife fathers a child and has it all come crashing down when he learns his mother is in danger back home Upon his return to France he finds his life in ruin