 Moment of Surrender  is the tenth track in the Anton Corbijn film Linear , based on a story by Corbijn and Bono where a Parisian traffic cop travel across France and the Mediterranean Sea to visit his girlfriend in Tripoli . During the sequence , the cop ( played by Saïd Taghmaoui ) , leave the bar and begin to wander the streets of Cádiz at night , eventually making his way down to the beach where he fall asleep on the sand . In the morning he wake up and the next track , " Cedars of Lebanon " , begin .