DRAWING RESTRAINT 17 opens with scenic shots of the Goetheanum, a center for Anthroposophy situated in the fills outside of Basel, Switzerland. A young woman is seen walking in the fields of the property, carrying an eccentric shovel. She begins to dig a shallow hole. The scene at the Goetheanum intercuts with an interior view in an art museum, where a group of professional art handlers are moving several lengths of heavy, rotten lumber into various configurations, under the supervision of an artist. Eventually the artist finds a configuration that satisfies him, in the form of a large pentagonal frame. The art handlers remove a sheet of white plastic film from a long roll, and cover the wooden frame. The group of men exits the museum. The young woman is now seen on a tram traveling to Basel. She looks out the window as the landscape slowly changes from rural to urban. She disembarks in Basel, and enters an institutional building. Just inside the entrance, she approaches a high wall, which rises up through the building’s austere atrium. The wall is dotted with white plastic blocks. After briefly studying the route, the young woman begins to climb. As she climbs past the windows, wider exterior views reveal that she is climbing the interior atrium of the Schaulager. The young woman continues to climb, while cutaway shots reveal the massive wooden pentagonal frame beneath her. As she reaches the top of her route, she reaches for the final handhold. She hesitates before taking it in her hand. As she shifts her weight onto the handhold, the block pulls away from the plaster wall. Wide shots follow the young woman as she falls backward, slowly, down through the atrium. The young woman passes through the wooden pentagonal frame. Upon impact, her body depresses the thin white plastic membrane draped over the timbers, stretching it to a translucent film, and finally tearing it, as her body disappears out of view.