Alexandra David-Néel J'irai au pays des neiges

On February 28, 1924, a Frenchwoman, Alexandra David-Néel, entered Lhasa, the capital of Tibet, a city previously forbidden to foreigners. Having set out thirteen years earlier from southern India, and after years of wandering that took her from the little-known Himalayan regions to the vast, unexplored Tibetan plains, Alexandra David-Néel, accompanied by a young lama who would become her adopted son, crossed the vast Asian continent to reach her goal: to discover the roof of the world. 'But it is not the destination that counts,' the tireless explorer tells us, 'but the journey that leads there.' - And for Alexandra David-Néel, this path is a spiritual one. - It is the path of Buddhism that she takes as a pioneer and whose surprising adventures she shares with us day after day. - It is the great actress Dominique Blanc who portrays Alexandra David-Néel.