This is a shot, counter-shot film that creates a conversation without words between a woman, Barbara Meter, and a man, experimental filmmaker Jos Schoffelen. The film proposes a dialogue deafened by a chord from a Mahler symphony. The unsuccessful delivery of words leaves room to another kind of language – cinematic expression – through juxtapositions, light flares, rapid zooms, and overall movement. The film breaks away from narrative rules, leaning towards image and sound abstractions and exposing the materiality of celluloid.