The presenter is at the podium with an open book before her.
Text on the video screen, West: A Translation. Rows of Chinese characters follow: a series of questions.
Text, Journey. A black-and-white photo of men standing in line to board a train.
A film is shown.
A photo shows a crowd of men standing atop train cars.
Two rows of men dressed in business suits, standing and sitting around a conference table, pose for a photograph. A black-and-white illustration from Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, May 20, 1869. In the image, trains from San Francisco and New York face each other on the track. Two giant hands extend from the locomotive as if initiating a handshake.
A detailed drawing of two trains facing each other on a single track.
Two long side-by-side tracks dug in the sand end in a spiral configuration.
Image of a desert filled with rocks and dried brush.
A wooden bridge spans a crevice in a desert.
Image of a fence constructed in a desert.
In a barren desert, crosses in a fenced cemetery mark the graves.
Atop a wooden bridge is a vast barren desert of parched earth.
Posts drilled into the earth serve as markers for a trail in the desert.
Text, West: A Translation.
Text, What Day.
A black-and-white image of a man's hands covering his chest. He stands behind a thin tree trunk. A magpie peeks out from behind the trunk.
A man's hands press against his bare chest.
A man's bare torso.
His hand lays atop his hip.
In a vast desert, two train tracks merge into one. Two hands, one young and one old, overlap.
A man folds his arms across his bare chest.
A rusty tool moves across a tree stump. A hammer pounds the tool.
A man's hand covers his bare chest. His hand grips his shoulder.
Standing against a blank wall, a man's arm extends straight out to the side, his fingers splayed.
The presenter closes the book.