The Surveyors Of The Desert

Under huge skies and a boudless horizon, an old bus is blown along an almost invisible road. Among the travellers is a young schoolteacher assigned to a remote village at the outermost bounds of a sandy wilderness. Suddenly, the deep and monotonous echo of a song resonates in the midst of the silence : it is an Andalusian chant which is like a call in the sand. Then, as in a dream, figures appear like statues of salt – they are the surveyors of the desert…