Antonioni's landmark 1975 drama stars a young Jack Nicholson as David Locke, a journalist who arrives at a desert hotel in a North African country to report on the guerrilla freedom fighters there. After discovering the dead body of the only other resident of his hotel, a man named Robertson (Charles Mulvehill), Locke decides to exchange identities with the dead man. He switches their passports and clothes, and informs the hotel desk that Locke's body has been found. The new Robertson decides to keep some of the old Robertson's appointments, traveling to Munich and meeting with representatives of the guerrillas, where he learns he is an arms dealer. He takes up with a strange young woman (Maria Schneider) as his new life leads him into places and encounters much more dangerous than he had bargained for.