A film is placed within late 1999; there is an away from control nuclear satellite in orbit that is liable to reenter the atmosphere at any time, contaminating large areas of the earth. This has driven an increasing degree of disorder, by owning big counts fleeing a probably impact web sites. In the midst of tons this, Claire Tourneur (Solveig Dommartin) has a few odd encounters; number one by having a couple of bank robbers (which ends higher using her getting the big pile of cash) & the hitchhiker who is being chased by the total of groups. It turns out that a hitchiker's father absconded by owning a working prototype from a secret scientific research, & many bureau, & a bit of freelance bounty hunters are attempting to recoup it.

A paradigm occurs as device for recording & translating brain impulses - a camera for the blind - and her hitchiker is travelling the world, cinematography his widely-scattered personal to show the children to his unsighted mother. A chase continues spherical a world, the nuclear satellite is shot down, stimulating an EMP effect that wipes out completely unshielded electronics worldwide, & the characters wind higher inside a hidden subsidence the Australian Outback, where a recordings come played back.

To add to the (so) touching-new look, at least 1 company, Sony, appears to have contributed epitome of a select few of their aforethought newly products for utilize in the film. A soundtrack is notable for Wenders request various recording artists - U2, Talking Heads, R.E.M., Jane Siberry, etc. - for music to become utilized within the film; specifically for the music that it thought it would become making in 1999.

Cast
Solveig Dommartin - Claire Tourneur Pietro Falcone - Mario Enzo Turrin - Doctor Chick Ortega - Chico Remy Eddy Mitchell - Raymond Monnet William Hurt - Sam Farber, alias Trevor McPhee Adelle Lutz - Makiko Ernie Dingo - Burt Jean-Charles Dumay - Mechanic Sam Neill - Eugene Fitzpatrick Ernest Berk - Anton Farber Christine Osterlein - Irina Farber Rüdiger Vogler - Phillip Winter Diogo Dória - Receptionist David Byrne - Himself in music streaming video (uncredited) Paris Themmen - (uncredited) Tom Waits - Himself/Singer in bar (uncredited)