Impossible Roads

In Gabon, forest covers 80% of the country. It is still partly impenetrable. However, truckers have to cross it to deliver the precious trunks of exotic trees that the country exports all over the world.

In Georgia, the mountains rise to over 4,000 meters and the road networks are sometimes in deplorable condition. Every winter in the Svaneti region, dozens of villages are cut off from the world by snow-covered roads.

In Bangladesh, the most populous country on the planet, a saying goes that what costs the least is life. From the first images of the film, the term overpopulation takes on a concrete and sadly inhuman dimension. For example, who could imagine that a man voluntarily plunges almost naked into the sewers of a capital of 15 million people in the middle of human excrement to go there to look for gold? This is the only job Gazi knows how to do.

Burma of a thousand pagodas. A forbidden country for half a century of dictatorship. Today, the country opens up to the world and reveals unknown landscapes of breathtaking beauty.

Every spring, in the hovsgol lake region located in northern Mongolia, Minjbayar and his family, the last of the darkhad nomads, begin a perilous journey on a frozen river. At an altitude of 2000 meters, in the icy mountains, they defy the cold and the blizzard on horseback to reach more fertile pastures essential to the survival of their herds of yaks and goats with cashmere wool.

Bolivia is a country ravaged with torrential rain, flooding and landslides. It is no surprise that after all the money the country has spent on safe roads, it has turned out worthless. The Bolivian highways are reduced to mud and floods. Edgar and his son are embarking on a long journey across the country to transport Brazil nuts to the processing plant. Crossing tributaries and flooded grounds as well as constant risk of getting stuck; getting to La Paz is an almighty challenge.