Impossible Roads

In Madagascar, “rosewood” is at the heart of all desires. For illegal loggers, the last trees in the country are the main source of their income. For five euros a day, they must descend from the mountain a log of nearly 500 kilos: a test of strength that lasts three days.

Guyana is a forgotten and mysterious country. Stuck between Suriname, Venezuela and Brazil, the only English-speaking state in South America also remains one of the poorest and least populated on the continent. Anything can happen in this haunt of adventurers, cowboys and gold diggers.

Incan gods warned the population against the dangerous paths of the Andes. Despite the risks, Peruvian drivers are traveling through this deadly mountain range on a weekly basis.

The land locked nation of Tajikistan is the poorest country in central Asia. The mountainous landscape is unforgiving and temperatures extreme. Here desperate truck drivers can wait for days to get assigned a load to transport across the treacherous terrain. Working in old and battered trucks on bone-shaking routes, dodging falling rocks and landslides, and being forced to wake up every two hours during the night to start their engines so they don’t freeze up and leave them stranded; these men are severely tested. They do it all for the love of their families who wait for weeks at a time, hoping that their husbands and fathers will return safe. A look at both sides of the lives of Tajik long distance drivers.

From the first images, the director immerses us in hell. Waterspouts, crossroads and flooded villages, population drowned in torrential rain, overflowing sewers. We are in Liberia. Here every summer the rainy season is one of the strongest in the world. In a few days, a fatal rain aggravates the difficulties of this country ruined by a devastating civil war. A water avalanche ravages all the dirt roads. The villages are cut off from the world.