Americana

Prosperous, good-looking and empty inside, 28-year-old advertising executive David Bell appears on the surface to have everything. B ut he is a man on the brink of losing his sanity. Trapped in a Manhattan office with soulless sycophants as his only company, he mak es an abrupt decision to leave New York for America`s mid-west. His plan: to film the small-town lives of ordinary people and make c ontact with the true heart of his homeland. But as Bell puts his films together in his hotel room, he grows increasingly convinced t hat there is no heart to find. Modern America has become a land that has reached the end of its reel ...

• author: Don DeLillo