Aboard a boat and coasting las Aeolian Islands, Catherine Millot faces a lonely landscape: beautiful islets isolated from the mainland, a calm sea under the Mediterranean heat. The proximity of this solitude turned geography awakens in her a reflection on what it means to be alone: on the one hand, the bottomless anguish that threatens to annihilate her, on the other, the opportunity to withdraw from society to lose herself in the pure contemplation of existence.