The movie relates the wanderings of robinson, an imaginary character, and his friend - who narrates the story for us - in London, a city which is depicted by both raw, still camera images and the monologues of Keiller’s subjectivity. By a constant method of critic and delirium (sometimes the critics by robinson are further criticised by the voice - over narrative) London is depicted in its economics, social life, urbanism and architecture, in a way that constantly mixes past and possible futures with the cruel present of a capital driven inhumanity. It shows the depressive side of the frustrated planner in a neoliberal context, best described by one quote in the start of the film: “Robinson lives in the way people were said to live in the cities of the Soviet Union. His income is small but he saves most of it. He isn't poor because he lacks money but because everything he wants is unobtainable.”