Le Pont du Nord is Jacques Rivette's mystery without a solution, a thriller without a plot, a modern-day Don Quixote/Sancho Panza tale that transforms the streets of Paris into a giant board game, a maze spotted with mysterious traps, puzzling clues, and chance encounters. Rivette, obsessed as always with secret organizations and obscure conspiracy theories, understands the city as a grand mystery in itself. The people within the city do not, for the most part, know anything about the hidden structures, paths, and narratives that lie beneath their daily activities: the city is a web of strangers, randomly meeting in the streets and then setting off on their own errands. They remain mysterious to one another, their divergent purposes hidden from those they encounter in the streets, and with everyone worrying about their own stories, seldom does anyone wonder about anyone else's. This film is about two of the exceptions to this rule, two wanderers who essentially live in the city's streets, and who as a result manage to peek at the hidden rules and secret societies that exist in plain sight for those who know what to look for.