Mélisande is a young woman on the run. When Prince Golaud finds her crying in the forest, she tells him she comes from elsewhere. Golaud falls in love with her, marries her, and takes her to his grandfather's castle. There, Mélisande meets Pelléas, the Prince's half-brother.

That says it all. Or rather, that says nothing, leaving everything to suggestion and projection... Fertile ground for the unfolding of forbidden love and its violent downfall. A structure between heaven and earth that Julie Duclos wanted to inhabit.

For, just as in Maurice Maeterlinck's writing, the characters are both "concrete and poetic," and often silent. To read into them, the director has imagined a scenography intertwining theater and cinema, multiplying shots, axes, and angles. This dramaturgical approach gives rise to multiple revelations and elevations, reminding us that the Belgian symbolist always sought to see the world beyond appearances.