Welcome to New York is a set of impressions, an exercise of inverted ethnography - from South to North - in which the directors show their irreverent and sarcastic vision of the "Capital of the World".

Tragedy and comedy alternate in strong contrasts while the camera goes in its journey across the city looking for humans, animals, politics, fashion, sense and nonsense, beauty and dead. All within the frame of the 2004 Presidential Campaign, in which George W. Bush was reelected.

But Welcome to New York is also a reflection on the contemporary human being, his inescapable animal nature and tragic fate. Instead of disappearing under a heavy layer of civilization, these philosophical topics seem to become more evident in the most influential city of the present world.

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