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- Each of the episodes presents one (or several) countries, through a route on the national railway lines. From stage to stage, we discover unusual, archaic or ultramodern trains, country twists or rolling palaces, on tiny or immense routes.
- Through the testimonies of several artists, the documentary explores the mysteries of fantasies and their places in society.
- Beginning of the journey in Ho Chi Minh Ville or Saigon: great traffic of scooters (about 6 millions of scooters), A short look at the old French buildings: Notre Dame de Saigon, the Town Hall, the Post Office, the Opera.Now Philippe goes to the railway station: he sees how people send their scooters to another station.Meeting with a woman and talk about the smile (the best thing that we can give to other persons).Another encounter: two Buddhist nuns.Arrival at Da Nang.Philippe meet at Mi-Son Mr. Tien who shows him this religious center of the Chams (a civilization from the second to 15 the century).Then Philippe goes fishing with a young man in his round basket.Philippe takes the train to Hué: women who sell products to the passengers are travelling on the roofs of the wagons.At Hué visit of the Imperial City (palaces, mausoleums, tombs).Then Philippe meets Chung t, the Buddhist nun, they prepare food and have a nice talk about peace and smiling.Then train to Hanoi: a short moment with a young woman who lives very near of the railway tracks.Then Philip goes to the Old Hanoi (32 specialized streets).He meets a woman who speaks French and is buying gifts for her ancestors (banknotes, gold bars, cell phones, houses, cars) and later they burn all these gifts n a metal box on the street.
- La Paz-Oruro-Uyuni-Sucre-Potosi-Santa Cruz-San José: a journey through Bolivia: pleasant talks in the trains, encounter of Cesar in the Salar of Uyuni, travel in the bus-travel from Sucre to Potosi, great encounter with Richard , a miner of this town, visit of his daily work in the mine.Then travel to Santa Cruz where Philippe takes a train to San Jose de Chiquitos: pleasant talks with the drivers and then at the kilometer 41 from San Jose Philippe meets a Mennonite farmer with his carriage who presents him his family and Philippe will discover the life of these Mennonite people.
- Beginning of the journey on a railway line in the middle of the wild life; in the savanna giraffes, antelopes.A woman arrives and explains that they must wait for a moment; the train may be late.And then train arrives: only a wagon for passengers, the other wagons are for freight.On board many students, mothers and children.Philippe stops his travel and visits a baboons sanctuary: there a man is taking care for orphan baboons, Philippe enjoys this moments with these baboons.Then Philippe takes again the railway line to Windhoek.A very short stay in Windhoek and departure for the Desert of Namib.Philippe enjoys the landscape but a young Namibian woman doesn't enjoy this landscape ( she dreams of white spaces with spring water).The train stops: sand on the railway line: A special team has come to take off the sand from the railway line.Further at Sossusvlei Philippe walks in the desert: another planet with sand, clay and dead trees.Suddenly Philippe meets a marathon runner, a 49 years old woman who is training in the desert.Then in the north of Namibia at Tsumeb Philippe takes a train towards the Kalahari desert, Namibian passengers are happy to speak with Philippe; we are now in the bush and Philippe will encounter Cashe, a bushman.On the morning Cashe, the hunters and Philippe will try to catch porcupines or small antelopes, they walk a lot and come back with only a big frog : the bushmen explain him that they live with simplicity, the nature gives all that they need.
- The corpse of the healer Rose Tournault has been found in her house and the police captain Anna Buisson will be in charge of the investigation.When she arrives at the house of the dead, she meets Eymeric Massoni who is looking at the corpse of his grandmother which is covered with white petals.Then he presents himself as the grandson of the victim and precises that the petals are those of the thorn apple (Datura stramonium).Some years ago a dam was build : a village and some hamlets were sunken and some families lost their houses. There is a legend of a white lady who goes around the lake.