L’Homme qui marche

An Italian surveyor, not long in Belgium, has been contracted to locate landmarks along a line from Brussels to La Panne. A journey by foot that leads him to discover places and people – stories, destinies, memory : something that each person, however anonymous, shares with the all the inhabitants of the region. The film accompanies the surveyor and sketches a subjective portrait of the flemish region and its people in 1992, while simultaneously highlighting their imprints on nature, traces that evoke the history, social and economic evolution, and the uniformity of lifestyles in Europe. Accompanying the surveyors walking tour, the film is a reflection on modernity, Europe and nationalist myths.