A young man named Alex sees a woman on a Copenhagen railroad platform and impulsively dumps his girlfriend in order to pursue his new fixation. Turns out the woman is married — and to a well-known writer, at that. After a one-night affair, Alex suddenly finds that his old life has simply … ceased to exist. What is going on here?

Alex and Aimée in "Reconstruction."
Roger Ebert
Roger Ebert was the film critic of the Chicago Sun-Times from 1967 until his death in 2013. In 1975, he won the Pulitzer Prize for distinguished criticism.

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