In Not Even a Tear the landscape becomes humanized while the human element becomes landscape. They mingle and complement each other until they are one, until they are the other and in each other. But this balance is broken. The barrenness that dwells in man becomes the barrenness in the world, the consequences of his actions inevitably spill outward. And the human cannot shed a single tear. All that remains is the longing for union; for an encounter, for primordiality, for simplicity, for essential reciprocity.