The Unlikely Encounter relates the past and present story of a statue: the Monumental Balzac by Rodin. The film is set in the very same places where the statue’s story happened. It also shows the international circulation of an extraordinary work of art from Paris to New York, Caracas and Melbourne. Until his death, Rodin never allowed for the statue to be cast in bronze after the scandal caused by its first public display in 1898 in Paris. Why? A young woman and I start an investigation on that dramatic story as eventful as a ‘soap opera’. Our quest stars with Balzac’s death. We witness an imaginary dialog between Rodin and Balzac who never met the sculptor.