In the collection of the Amsterdam Eye Film Museum, director Fiona Tan explored silent documentary archival footage created before the 1920s. The found footage depicts everyday life in the country and, most importantly, the hard work that is gradually being eased by machines. Dutch women in traditional costumes, winter scenes, harvest work, fishing, land reclamation, trade, and port work. Indonesian-born director Tan arrived in Amsterdam from Australia to study in 1988. During this time, Tan's father sent her letters that vividly discussed private matters, the family dog, grandchildren, global politics, and competition between economic systems. The combination of these voice-over letters and archival footage from a completely different era can initially be confusing. The images do not illustrate or support what is being said. The viewer is greeted with a unique audiovisual stream of consciousness, enhanced by a masterful soundtrack that is open to associations, coincidences, and subtle connections between image and sound, past and present, the Netherlands and Indonesia, trade and colonialism, father and daughter. N-7 Film is in English with Lithuanian subtitles.