Adrien begleitet den berühmten bildenden Künstler Ernst Bollinger, über den er eine Biographie schreibt, nach Grado. Auf der Suche nach einer vermissten Frau erleben die beiden Männer in der kargen Atmosphäre der winterlichen Lagune eine übersinnliche Pilgerfahrt.

Director’s Statement:
In the film, everything is in balance, the environments are evocative of a lost time, places forgotten by man as symbols of an ancient civilization, tarnished, discoloured: each place is an idea of a place, each room an idea of a room, stripped of the superfluous so that the characters can manifest themselves as idols. Bodies, boats, houses, islands suspended over the water and shrouded in fog; objects, people and animals are conceived as fantastic visions emerging from the mists like distant memories. Giulio, Adrien and Ernst are body, word and symbol, a pagan trinity devoted to transfiguration, to metamorphosis, all fathers of a single world e children of a common ancestor.