The Meetings of Anna 1978 Anna, a detached and diffident director, arrives in Germany to show her latest film she checks into a hotel, invites a stranger to her bed, and abruptly tells him to leave He asks her to a birthday lunch with his mother and daughter she goes Afterward, in Cologne, she meets an old friend, a Polish Jew and war refugee In Brussels, she spends the night at a hotel with her mother, whom she rarely sees On the train, a stranger tells his story Last, its home to Paris, where her lover Daniel picks her up and they go to a hotel Throughout, people make personal revelations to her, and Anna listens with little affect Although it was 30 years ago, the war seems ever present