Encounters by Moonlight

Alfred Sisley, a seasoned old man inhabited by melancholy, lives alone, surrounded by his memories. Withdrawn from the world, he waits in silence for a sign—the sign of his one true love. Powerless against time as it slips away, he tries to overcome his sorrows, to contain his recurring dreams, and to soothe his torn writings, remnants of an inner life that remains ever awake. The encounter with Joey disrupts this fragile balance. In him, Sisley recognizes the reflection of his thirty-year-old self: an intimate resonance, a profound unity, an unexpected synergy. Through music—which acts as a vibrant echo of his past—Sisley reopens the doors of his memory. He then entrusts Joey with his story, fragment by fragment, in the hope of reclaiming what has been missing for so long. Between shared silences and whispered confidences, their relationship becomes a suspended space where past and present converge. Each note, each glance, each word rekindles a buried presence. Sisley gradually understands that some encounters do not come to fill an absence, but to finally give it meaning.