Night of Fire | Eric Emmanuel Schmidt

Far from the noise and chaos of European capitals, a writer and film director journeys deep into the Algerian desert with a team of tourists and explorers. The rational writer came to trace the footsteps of Saint Charles de Foucauld to write a screenplay about his life. He came carrying questions from a philosophy professor and his materialistic ideas, but he got lost and lost his questions in the Sahara of the Tuareg.. One night of being lost without water or food was enough to turn the writer's life upside down. And the writer here is none other than Éric Emmanuel Schmitt himself, as he depicts for us the journey he undertook at the age of twenty-eight, which shook all his philosophical materialistic beliefs, opening his heart to a world of serenity and peace, and placing his feet on a new path that would later define all his literary works. The night of fire is a journey in place, suddenly turning into a journey within the worlds of the self, exposing its false vanity and confronting it with its contradictions in the mirror of the universe.. "When I say I am present, it means I will not be present after that, and the word alive is nothing but the true synonym of the word van, becoming my arrogance is my need and my strength becomes my deficiency.