Grado, Italy: Adrien, art scholar and biographer of the famous artist Ernst Bollinger, finds himself involved as the author and protagonist in the final chapter of the great artist’s life. Immersed in the rarefied atmosphere of the winter lagoon, the two men, accompanied by a young boatman, share the experience of a surreal pilgrimage in search of a missing woman.

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.