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A film about the spiritual encounter of the works of the world-famous Finnish modern music composer Kaija Saariaho, living in Paris, and the Spanish visual artist Nacho Angulo, and about an attempt to understand what the human soul contains.In the film Nacho Angulo, living in Madrid, uses about 15 000 pieces of birch to produce his interpretation of five-part song cycle, Chateau de l'âme, composed by Kaija Saariaho. During the long working process his mind wanders in Finnish birch forests seeking the mythical background and the soul of the birch tree as well as Kaija Saariaho's connection with this spiritual landscape of her childhood. The film depicts this encounter in a space crossing the borders of different cultures. In this space, Nacho Angulo's starting point for his process, based on modern music, is also a deep personal grieving that necessitates finding the contents of the castle of the soul. (texto oficial de la distribuidora)