Pascal, is a literature student who lives in a studio apartment in the Rue Saint-Jacques. His girlfriend Christine often stays over. Sarah, is a classical singer. She lives in a nicer apartment with her boyfriend Manuel, who is a computer programmerm and she sings in a baroque ensemble under the direction of a conductor she calls the Unnameable. Pascal and Sarah don’t know each other, but they have two things in common: they both live with people who love them without understanding who they really are, and they are both filled with melancholy. Their meeting happens within a baroque essence, just as Sarah had once defined it: It’s like being two persons at the same time, but one of them is alive because the other one is dead. Hearing Sarah’s moving voice singing Lamento della Ninfa by Monteverdi, Pont des Arts extends throughout La Seine river, a bridge built by men to overcome the emptiness of the city, and to join, in a single place, life and death.
