Code inconnu: Récit incomplet de divers voyages

The film features several  different storylines , all of which intersect periodically throughout the film.  Jean, a restless teenager who yearns for  freedom , tells his sister-in-law Anne (Juliette Binoche) about his dissatisfaction  with working on his father's farm.  Jean suddenly throws a piece of garbage at Maria, a Romanian woman sitting on the side of the road. Amadou, an African boy, tries to get Jean to apologize and then winds up in a scuffle with him . The police arrives and blame the African. Michael Haneke juxtaposes different characters' different lives belonging to different social classes. Haneke gives us insights into the various lives that have intersected in modern city. We witness an equally racially charged encounter at the end of the film. A man (Arab) begins to harass Anne in a metro. She moves to the other end of the subway car.  He follows and sits down beside her and then spits in her face.  This is a film about race,culture ,urban rage and alienated identity. But then Haneke's films are not so straightforward as well.  Haneke loves to play with our assumptions of reality and he does it well in Binoche's scenes ,some of which may also be scenes from a film her character is making.