Cultiver l'esprit des ancêtres

This documentary film is the result of an ethnological investigation. With farmers and stockbreeders from Jicaltepec and San Rafael in Mexico, some of whom are descendants of settlers who left Champlitte and its surroundings in the 19th century in a context of crisis in the wine industry, the investigation looks back at their perception of the history and future of an agricultural colony. Alongside accounts that link the founding of this colony to the dream of a saving elsewhere, and in particular to a Fourierist utopia consisting of creating a "phalanstery" on "virgin land", the farmers insist on the necessary perseverance of these "emigrants" to overcome the trials that never ceased to present themselves to them: difficulties of travel, shortages, diseases, the Franco-Mexican war, the Mexican revolution, floods, hurricanes, etc..