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The polder main feature of the Dutch landscape has a disconcerting effect on the traveller who comes across it In the film a young man begins to explore this world and finds himself steeped in silence and in the vastness of space He has a feeling of serenity which he naively endeavours to capture But the climate of Holland always seeks revenge Serenity gradually gives way to despair against the backdrop of the bare landscape with no shelter to offer The very same reasons which explain the polders charm now become responsible for a hostile attitude the vastness becomes oppressive paradise becomes a hell