He first starts to follow her from her high-rise apartment building on Nob Hill to a flower shop [a significant location and motif] on Grant Avenue through a narrow back alley and back door, where she buys a red and white nosegay bouquet as he voyeuristically peers at her with an ingenious split-screen effect.The Searcherstells the emotionally complex story of a perilous, hate-ridden quest and Homeric-style odyssey of self-discovery after a Comanche massacre, while also exploring he themes of racial prejudice and sexism.The narrator is a hired assassin during the conflict of war.Introspectively droning in a cold, detached and passive voice about a covert assassination mission, he is soon to learn that his wish is fulfilled.Six shows running at once! Lunch at Delmonico""s.Two hundred dollar suits.(Max gestured at his stick pin) You see this?This once held a pearl as big as your eye.Look at me now.Look at me now! I""m wearing a cardboard belt!(He took off the belt and ripped it up)I used to have thousands of investors begging, pleading, to put their money into a Max Bialystock production.