‘Journey of No Return’ is a series of tableaux, put together as a “fake autobiography” of a woman. A fake autobiography because the woman is writing a script which in part takes other people's experiences and presents them as her own. After all, fantasy has a real effect in the construction of identity. She's never touched her camera before, but pretends to be a photographer. She's never worked in a peep-show, but pretends she does. She claims to be a writer, but gets someone else to write the dialogue for her.

A woman with ‘no name and no country’ is searching for her sense of belonging. The two main questions – 'why am I here?', and 'when am I going back?' – are explored through her unsent letters to her father.

She is from another country, we don't know where. ‘'I came here to enlarge my mind’, the voice-over says. She encounters certain aspects of western culture, to which she is both attracted and yet resistant. For example, her relationship to language, which is at the centre of her divided identity. Her curiosity about the peep-show, to her mind the world of sexual exploration with its fear and fascination; something she wasn't allowed back home. Her attraction to Rupert who, we might say, is an embodiment of western neo-conservatism. This is indicated by the post-modern architecture, and the modern reconstruction of the 1950s diner.

The film is mainly concerned with the de-idealization of the west, and the crisis of identity.

Description source: publicity materials