Franco Films

She menage to save from a fire a bunch of pictures and a diary written by hand. Those words and faces becomes the last traces left from the man she one day knew and loved. Crossing mountains and roads, she tries to remake his steps. The places she vists bring people, gestures, memories and histories that slowly become part of her life.

A silent adaptation of the 1778 Beaumarchais play The Marriage of Figaro, with material also used from its two sequels.

Is it wise in this world for a woman to treat her own friend as a biological sister in her own matrimonial home? Friends sometimes make you digress, derail or lead you astray; they even let you go out of proportion. When a man's heart is troubled a lot of things do happen. Some things are better left unsaid. It's wise saving your home than to breaking your heart.

Expressing post-war cultural internationalism, this silent film follows the mysterious Orchid and the man who loves her.