A single meadow in the French countryside becomes the entire stage for this film by Claude Nuridsany and Marie Pérennou, shot with custom macro lenses and motorized rigs built to move at insect scale. There is no narrator explaining what you're watching, only ambient sound design and a score, so the images have to carry the story on their own. A dung beetle labors to roll its ball uphill and gets stuck on a twig, snails engage in a slow courtship, ants tend aphids like livestock, and a spider wraps prey in silk while raindrops the size of boulders relative to the subjects hang and fall in slow motion. The camera holds close enough to see water bead on a beetle's shell and pollen cling to a bee's legs, turning grass blades into forest canopy and puddles into lakes. Shot over months to capture a single day's cycle from dawn to storm to dusk, the film treats its insect cast with the patience and framing usually reserved for wildlife twenty times their size.