Arriving in Avignon

the long version

A young man away from home populates an ancient city with his dreams and desires. "Arriving in Avignon" records a young man's first encounter with that labyrinth city, and his likewise meandering relationship with a girl from his home town - and indeed virtually every woman he meets. Hesitant and cautious, unable quite to enter nor turn away, the young man seems to circle Avignon endlessly, in the process attempting to delay his inevitable descent into maturity and monogamy. What seems at first like a cross between a memoir and a guidebook comes in time to be the story of a young man's dogged yet futile quest to know his own mind - unless it's the ancient city of Avignon itself that is our real protagonist: a mystery that can be approached, but never wholly solved.