The puppets are flat, the screens againts which they are placed and moved iswhite and devoid scenery. In what kinds of space do the stories of the clasical shadow-play of Java, Bali, Lombok, and the Malay World unfold despite this double flatness? How do performers use not only puppets and screen but also music and language to bring space into being?What must spectators know and do to make sense of these storytelling techniques? As a contribution to the narratological study of these storytelling techniques? As a contribution to the narratological study of the multimodal making of storyworlds, I demonstrate that wayang kulit caters for different understandings of the space that wayang potrays. An expert way of apprehendig space requires seeing beyond the screen, puppets, and silhouettes, or even looking away from them. At the same time the peculiar ways of narrating space in wayang point to a deeply felt spatiality in real-life contexts as well.