The title indicates the scopic and conceptual topography of the film. The first part shot in Fremantle, Western Australia, with nautical references (seascapes, masts, lighthouses). The second part shot in East Gippsland, Victoria, alternating indistinct images of beach, sea and sky with black and white footage of fishermen on a beach, the voice-over taking up notions suggested by the first part: a poetic speculation on the uncertainty of migration towards a nomadic condition of continual departure and the paradox of return: the refrain. The third and final part in aerial transit, an arrival denied by the films ending.