A single, well-worn leather boot comes into frame, crushing a previously extinguished cigar butt into the dull, gritty asphalt. The focus shifts, revealing a man in the fading evening light. His face shows years of hard work, cheekbones prominently outlined by his trimmed beard. The camera reveals him to be standing in front of an old, dilapidated building, painted with fading campaign posters from previous elections.
The man is wearing a worn-out election pin on his roughly stitched jean jacket, indicating that he once had political hopes. The colors of the scene are muted – the deep blue of his jacket, the rusty red of the posters, the dull off-white of the building, all under a lilac twilight sky.
The shot creates a deep perspective, with the man in the foreground and the lonely, forgotten building surrounding him. The image establishes a balance between the man, full of life but confronting his unskillfulness, and the building which thrives on abandonment but bears remnants of past grandeur. The camera angle shifts to a high angle, revealing the crumbling town around the man. The final movement is a slow zoom out, making the man small within the space as the sound of the wind echoes off the buildings.