Nine men and women are sitting on a grassy hill in front of the walls encircling the Paris Pére Lachaise cemetery. They recite a poem by Stéphane Mallarmé. Bouncing back and forth between the people, a region of words comes into being, a light sculpture of texts, scanned and pounded out on the verge of silence. The film is dedicated to friends of the Straubs, as well as to the dead of the Paris Commune of May 1871.

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