Ocean

The title refers a gigantic silver-plated train that crosses the wilderness of Canada. The train is the last word in luxury - a throwback to a more glamorous era. The train's personnel prepare themselves for the journey, ensuring everything is in shipshape and working order. The cabins are tidied, the saloon cars are arranged and the kitchen is scrubbed clean. The hulking mass of metal is ready for departure. There is only one thing missing - the passengers. The filmmaker consistently returns to the leitmotif of an unmade bed in one of the cabins, resembling the folds of the surrounding mountains. This acts as a temporal maker of the passing days, conveying the feeling that something monumental did exist once.