Le Grand Rush

Every winter, certain Saturdays are times of intense activity in the Tarentaise area of Savoy. Tens of thousands of vehicles rush towards the winter sports resorts. Considerable means are used to get the holiday-makers to their destination. From the motorway toll at Albertville to the resorts, hundreds of people, representing ten or so services (gendarmerie, préfecture, the roads department, the motorway authorities, Radio France, tourist offices...), are mobilized in order to facilitate this migration, drawing up tactics according to the numbers of cars and the weather, while the further into Tarentaise one goes the narrower the roads become and the more numerous the holiday-makers... Traffic jams are inevitable, but they last two hours whereas ten years ago, they lasted fifteen... This film, thanks to some very varied characters : a colonel in the gendarmerie, a member of the roads department, a woman who lives near the road, a woman who works at the motorway toll, a holiday-maker... takes us behind the scenes in this migration