Par monts et par drailles

Overview

In the Cévennes, Jean-Louis Perrier, a transhumant shepherd since 1965, embodies the resistance of an ancestral trade on the brink of extinction. Alongside passionate young shepherds, he keeps centuries-old pastoral traditions alive: transhumance on foot, the careful tending of flocks. But this passion now faces multiple challenges: the return of the wolf, dwindling fodder, ever more restrictive regulations, and the economic fragility of the sheep farming sector. As he retraces the drailles he has walked his entire life, he reveals a mental map etched into the landscape, and sounds the alarm about the closing off of open land resulting from the abandonment of transhumant pastoralism.