An uncertain state is echoed in Omer Fast's video De Grote Boodschap (The Big Message) (2007), in which the social changes that followed the fall of the Berlin wall and the re-mapping of European politics, borders, and immigration form the context for four interwoven stories. Fast's video layers these narratives over each other, depicting six characters in an apartment building in Belgium, all trying to make sense of the same event. Their contradictory stories shift between real experience, conjecture, memory, and fiction, underlining both the subjectivity of perception, and the different backgrounds classes and ethnicities of each neighbor. A fear of terrorism is suddenly undermined by the revealing of an actor as being not Arab, but Kosovar, compounding doubt about every character's true identity, and confirming the racism that permeates each tableau. Fast uses narrative montage to question the veracity of experience, demonstrating its transformation into stories which are, in turn, re-circulated as memory.