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Synopsis

At the end of the summer of 1846, Henry David Thoreau sets out to the north. What begins as a journey, with railway and steamship, continues on horse and wagon, in canoe and finally on foot, gradually becoming an expedition. His goal: "The Great Mountain", 1606 meters high, the highest point of Maine Ktaadn, as it is called in the language of the native people. The trail leads through unmapped territory, through a labyrinthine landscape of lakes and rivers, and the vast forests of a largely untouched and impassable nature. The boundaries of human habitats are soon crossed, it goes deeper and deeper into the wilderness. The last signs of civilization, alcohol-based Indians, the traces of the lumberjacks and fur traders, testify to greed and destructive anger. And yet, Thoreau seems to nature in its whole variety and extent untouched and indifferent also to the questions that arise to the one who exposes itself to it unprotected: "Who are we? Where are we?"

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