RIDM

It sounds like a legend unfolding. Once upon a time, a man left on foot from Saint-Malo to embark on a journey to Bamako, crossing five countries and giving 160 talks to the people he met along the way. But this time, the man in the legend is real. His name is Marc Roger and he’s a white griot, or storyteller, born in Africa, who made the acquaintance of filmmaker Catherine Hébert (De l’autre côté du pays). Hébert walked at the griot’s side for nearly eight months, covering 15 to 30 kilometers every day and inadvertently multiplying the remarkable and life-affirming encounters along the way. Both an inspirational road movie and touching initiation, Carnets d’un grand détour chronicles an extraordinary adventure in which generosity and solidarity walk hand in hand.