«Daniel Schmid - Le chat qui pense» documents the eventful life and cinematic legacy of an exceptional Swiss film and opera director. It spans the filmmaker's formative childhood in a Belle Epoque hotel in the Swiss Alps; follows his escape to a turbulent 1960s Berlin, his love of cinema, and his encounters with Rainer Werner Fassbinder. The film travels with Schmid through time and around his world: a world situated between reality and fiction.