Man and his land - not the planet, but the one he lives on, the one his ancestors knew, the one from which he learned everything. Descamps has always been struck by the tenacity with which civilisations cling to their fragment of the earth; his earliest journeys carried him toward these regions and these people, sharing in their lives from the outset, touched by their generosity and hospitality, and for some ten years he has tried to show, piece by piece, what he found there.