Two Frenchmen decide to follow the route of the heroes of Jules Verne's novel. What is this? Chasing a childhood dream, a whim of bored intellectuals? Jean Cocteau's novel is a diary of a journey made “headlong around the world.” But this seemingly superficial glance, under the influence of the first impression, captures what in fact is the essence of an unfamiliar exotic world, in which, however, the presence of European civilization, its flourishing and fading is invariably felt. A convex reflection of the Eastern and Western spirit, a romantic, expressive, but at the same time very accurate in its details, the picture becomes the magnifying glass through which it is appropriate to look at the world today in its evolution from the twentieth to the twenty-first century and make sure that a lot is changing in it and almost nothing. The time of action is 1936. Global world upheavals are yet to come...