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L'Affaire Bajazet is an open-air, costumed adaptation of Racine's play of the same name, in which the passions of the heart and the stakes of power clash in early 17th-century Byzantium. Love, pain and death are just words here.

Simon Gaillot is a young filmmaker. At the age of twenty, he decides to shoot an open-air film every summer based on a play. In keeping with Jean Cocteau's belief that cinematographic art is above all a craft, he works, with a constant concern for to establish a relationship of proximity and necessity between a text, a face, a body and a landscape. He has thus been able to adapt, with great freedom, works by Julien Gracq (Le Roi pêcheur), Heinrich von Kleist (Penthesilea), Jean Racine (Bajazet), Robert Walser (Aschenbrödel), Oscar Wilde (Salomé), Fernando Pessoa (O Marinheiro), William Shakespeare (The Winter's Tale), Torquato Tasso (Aminta) and Charles Péguy (Ève).