Light, getting-to-know-you, romance unfolds as two 20-somethings share an unlikely 14-hour date. Gen-Xer Jesse (Hawke) and French beauty (Delpy) meet on the Eurail and he convinces her to join him in exploring Vienna and their mutual attraction before he heads back to the States in the morning. The two exchange life experiences and philosophies in the typical Linklater conversational fashion, but the film strays from the comical accounts of earlier works Slacker and Dazed and Confused. Cinematographer Daniel captures the Old World with finesse, especially in the inevitable first kiss atop the Ferris wheel made famous in Orson Welles' The Third Man.