A speaker presents.
Text, West: A Translation.
Motion along dual train tracks that extend into a flatland's distance.
The forward movement along the tracks continues, as if one is watching from the cab of a locomotive.
Chinese hanzi characters are overlaid on the video screen.
Text, Sorrowful news has passed to me. When will your wrapped body return? Unable to close your eyes, to whom can you tell your story? Had you known, you never would have made this journey. Eternity contains a thousand bitter sorrows. Missing home, you face in vain Home-Gazing Terrace, Your ambitions, unfulfilled, buried under the earth. Yet I know death can't turn your great heart to ashes.
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The presenter leaves the podium, taking a seat among the audience attendees.