Freytag's pyramid of Paris, Texas by Wim Wenders

Exposition

The main characters are presented, Travis, his son, his brother and brother's wife. The story begins with the mystery of why Travis walked down the desert apparently with no destination, and the fact that he disappeared for four years and left his son to the care of his brother and wife.

Inciting incident

Happens when Travis reencounters with his son after four years and he wants to be his father again. Travis's brother took him to his house at Los Angeles, where he lived with his wife and where they were raising his son.

Rising Action

Travis and his son start to get along together little by little while his brother's wife starts to worry about giving up the kid. Memories of the one Travis loved, mother of his son who apparently left at the same time he did and never came back, keep returning, either from a family video or conversations at dinner table.
Travis founds out his wife deposit money every fifth of the month to a bank account opened for his son. He decides he wants to look for his wife Jane, picks up his son at school and begins the trip together far to Houston, Texas to find her.

Climax

Happens when Travis and his son find Jane in her car at the bank. They chase her to the place where Travis founds out what she did for a living.

 

Falling Action

Travis founds out the way to talk to her in a cabine where he could see her but she couldn't see him. He starts to talk but lose control and he got out of there. He wanders with his son from place to place wondering of the situation and what he should do.

 Turning Point

Happens when he accepts his fault and realizes of his mistakes in the past with his wife, which propitiate the family desintegration.  He decides he has to join together again Jane and his son. Travis leaves a recording to his son and goes to see Jane for the last time.

Resolution

When Travis starts to talk to Jane again, is the time where we get to know their background story; why both of them left their son and why their relationship didn't worked well. But he didn't went to reconcile with her, he realized their relationship was self-destructive; he just went to accept the mistakes he made in the past in front of her and to reunite her with their son. The story ends with a lonely man who's afraid of what will happen but satisfied for having united the two people he loved the most, and a mother and her son reencountering after a long time, what we can see in a beautiful image.