Alfred Sisley, a seasoned old man haunted by melancholy, lives alone surrounded by his memories. Withdrawn from the world, he waits in silence for a sign—the one from his unique and true love. Helpless in the face of crumbling time, he tries to overcome his sorrows, contain his recurring dreams, and soothe his heart-wrenching writings, vestiges of an ever-watchful inner life.
The encounter with Joey disrupts this fragile balance. In him, Sisley recognizes the reflection of his own thirty years: an intimate resonance, a deep unity, an unexpected synergy. Through music—which acts as a vibrant echo of his past—Sisley reopens the doors of his memory. He kemudian confides his story to Joey, fragment after fragment, in the hope of finding what has been missing for so long.
Between shared silences and whispered confidences, their relationship becomes a suspended space where past and present meet. Each note, each look, each word revives a buried presence. Sisley gradually understands that certain encounters do not come to fill an absence, but to finally give it meaning.