I was born in this country of northernness, on the Manicouagan peninsula which is the origin of the geomorphological formation that resulted from the impact of the meteorite that created the Manicouagan astrobleme 214 million years ago.

My intimate relationship with this territory is powerful and the likeness of a love story. This is also what guided my approach to bring this film to life. This story is inspired by a choral form where the characters and the various evolutionary and temporal strata resonate with each other. In this mosaic, individuals and places coexist in a plurality of independent narrative plots but their routes converge to tell together this fascinating story. Slow paced, the links are made without necessarily being chronological to offer freedom. The story takes life through an association of ideas and themes (memory, origins, gestation, communication network) metaphorically.

This film reveals our buried and forgotten memories through some places that have shaped the history of the vast region of Manicouagan but also of Quebec.  Different natural or man-made traumas are experienced by the territory and visible in the landscape and in people’s souls: the shaping of the territory by the meteorite, the transformation of the landscapes, the sinking of the old Manicouagan lake and the Innu camps during the creation of Manic 5, the burnt forest threatening Michel and Guy's camp or the burial of the mining town of Gagnon.

 One of the narrative plots reveals the foundational link that the Innu community of Pessamit has with the Nitassinan.

In filigree, my intimate relationship to this territory is also embodied by my 3 daughters at different ages of their lives. The privileged bond I have acts like a string through a narrative that delicately crosses the film.