While this is essentially a program on tourism, the view offered is no tranquil landscape. The tourist site, Banff, is presented as a recycled product of a generic past, where archetypal images are layered to create only the illusion of the passage of time. Through television and tourism, sites are petrified and mediated until the moment becomes a memory, an image captured as a future that might have been. This innovative tape challenges the viewer to keep up with its intriguing exploration of time and ideas in the crystalized environment of a world-class tourist attraction.