The most amazing thing about this package is kitsch the general enthusiasm of the meetings. Apart from the lard of the main characters, as it creates a film to serve as many improbabilities in less than 2 hours? The good bookworm and polyglot Jeremy Irons as intimidated Teacher beings in Bern. He finds a Portuguese book he can even read, and it inspired (why do it?), And a train ticket in the jacket of a suspected suicide, and he was already sitting in the eponymous train, looking for the author, whose sister he in Nu place, etc. It all runs like clockwork, and is highly dramatic and melancholic. Saudades precisely. Real 'Portuguese'.
As Irons' Swiss teacher in Lisbon check into a hotel, the hotel owner gives him a room with a sea view. A glance at a map is easy to show that there is not something in Lisbon. For this you would have to go in the western suburbs, which the man has obviously not done. Is that one of the many small margins of the story, or is suggested to us that the hotel owner is a con man who takes tourists on the arm?