A young man tries in vain to enter into a dialog with his female reflection on the television screen. After a brief flirt based on the German version of the 1950 Western romance, Broken Arrow, his desirable alter ego vanishes again. A satire about the paradoxical fascination contemporary culture cultivates for images and a hyped sense of self, Bjørn Melhus' early video Das Zauberglas (The Magic Glass) hints at how media “mirrors” our phantasies, replacing human interaction with virtual reality.