Every morning, Barnabas trains with his favorite horse, Caravage. Both have a silent conversation as they guide each other. Will they attain a level of perfection that will allow them to appear before an audience? Cavalier films as the duo battles health, recovery from failed sessions, achieves improvement and the joy of a flawless performance. Over the course of the film, a trio of hearts is born. The audience has the potential to make it a quartet.

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This film is unmistakably the work of Alain Cavalier. It is an invitation to a journey that is difficult to define and requires some faith on the part of the audience. In this case, it sees, through the puckish and fascinated gaze of the filmmaker, the duo formed by renowned horseman Barnabas and his horse Caravage. As is often the case with the director of Therese, his heart returns to his favorite form of cinema – of which Pater with Vincent Lindon was an exception – where things may seem ordinary, but on closer inspection they are filled with poetry and magic. Seemingly enchanted by the dance between man and animal, for just over an hour the well-named Cavalier remains glued to the two as he tries to pinpoint their style, their intimate and strange relationship. But he doesn’t succeed in drawing in the audience completely, who will remained unswayed.