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The UN votes to partition Palestine. Riots in the face of the partition of Palestine. The Suez Canal is handed over to Egypt after 72 years of British control. Incidents on the Israel-Egypt border. The Egyptian Crisis. Israel withdraws from Sinai.

A 70-year old man living in a remote part of Scotland has been obsessed with 'trying to really understand' Darwin's book for many years. Alongside this passion, he's been constantly working on small inventions for making his life easier. The film investigates someone profoundly interested in human beings, but who has decided to live separately from the majority of them.

Oscar drives a taxi 12 hours a day to earn a living. While he works, he is constantly bombarded by the advertising that fills the streets of Buenos Aires. In the trunk of his Peugeot 504, he carries his tools -bottles of glue, paint and cut-outs from magazines. Whenever the taxi is vacant he stops the car, borrows a ladder and starts to transform his chosen billboard using painting and collage techniques. Throughout the film the steadily worsening state of the country's economic situation is reflected in Oscar's personal and creative life, as he is submerged in the national chaos his work becomes more strongly critical.

“Located in the historic city center, the once old former Barrio Chino had become a succulent real estate treat waiting to be carved up. To the North, a legion of civilians holed up in museums, universities and centers of contemporary culture waiting until the police finished clearing the streets of the destitute. To the South, the deputies of the tourism industry unloaded the hordes of the idle from the modern cruise ships anchored in the port. It was the start of an all-out siege, a war that fed on the city's streetwalkers. The battle was waged one house at a time...”