Chamonix in the 1930s was a resort where a cosmopolitan, fashionable and sporting society thronged, in search of novelties and thrills found in mountaineering. These people rub shoulders with the Chamoniards but do not meet except on the trails of Mont-Blanc. The accident of Joseph, the patriarch of Servettaz, guides from generation to generation, marked the spirits. It is his son Zian who decides to take up the torch. Married to Bianca, the daughter of the wealthy Milanese industrialist who was partly responsible for her father's death, Zian lives out her great love story - a threesome - with the mountain always remaining the most demanding mistress. Tired of the agonizing expectations and loneliness during her husband's ascents, Bianca returns to Italy, Zian joins her, but society life is not his world, he returns to Chamonix. During an outing in the mountains, Zian falls into a crevasse. Bianca, alerted by a presentiment, returns to the one she loves above all...

1998 television film

Le film retrace le voyage de Catherine Destivelle en Pays Dogon, au Mali, où elle réalisera de spectaculaires ascensions en solo intégral sur les falaises ensoleillées de Bandiagara. Destivelle est accompagnée lors de ce voyage par un ami grimpeur, Lucien Abbet. Ce film de Pierre-Antoine Hiroz, produit en 1987 par Paradoxe, met également en scène Tidjani Koné, Ibrahim Dolo et les habitants dogons de la falaise de Bandiagara. Le film remporte le Genziana D'argento du meilleur film d'escalade libre au Trento Film festival en 1987.