We know little about Dutch artist Bas Jan Ader but like author Thomas Giraud we cannot but wonder how he became fascinated with falls. What were his intentions when he fell on his bike into a canal or when he let himself fall from a tree branch? Was it his compulsive desire to go against an established order of the material world? Or should we look into his early childhood and the omnipresent figure of his absent father and war hero? Thomas Giraud explores the life of this fascinating artist and performer, suggesting keys to understand the trajectory of his life, ended in a crossing of the Atlantic aboard his boat In Search of the Miraculous, the last witness to his ultimate fall.