The following text is adapted from a novel about a filmmaker.

The director had no real patience for improvisation, but she had a passion for the visual and could be keenly sensitive to a location which was the fitting backdrop for her story. The desolate beach seemed an extension of the script’s mood, and she found the scene perfect in its grayness, its emptiness, its silence.

As used in the text, what does the word "fitting" most nearly mean?