How to use anchored frames in side-by-side flows?

Hello,
I'm working in a bilingual document with two side-by-side flows and I cannot find the way of adding an anchored frame that runs accross both columns (to host a graphic for example).
I could manually split the flows after the required line and add a frame between them but this document is revised every couple of months (adding and removing big amounts of text) and it would be too time demanding.
Do you have any tip for me?

The anchored frame will only affect the content in the flow that it is placed in. So, if you have a two-flow document, an AFrame placed in one column will never affect the content in the second flow. A graphic frame that spans both columns and has a runaround property will cause text to break around in it both frames. However, the graphic frame is tied to a location on the specific page and doesn't float with content changes.
If the the content in the two flows is spatially synchronized, i.e. each paragraph in both flows starts at the same baseline location, and the graphic is common to both, then you could just use an anchored frame in each column anchored left/right to create a 100% overlap and place the graphic in only one of these.
Alternatively, you could use a graphic frame across both flows and create a script that automatically re-positions a graphic frame, perhaps tied to a unique marker in both flows as the proximity indicator.

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