Night of fire

Far from the noise and chaos of European capitals, a writer and film director travels 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 the philosophy professor and his materialist perceptions, but he lost and his questions got lost in the Sahara of the Tuareg.. One night of wandering 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 materialist convictions, opening his heart to a world of serenity and peace, and setting his feet on a new path that would define all his later literary works. A night of fire, a journey in the place, suddenly turns 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 turns into my deficiency, and pride mixes with fear."