Tobie Lolness

A photojournalist's obsessive quest for the truth about the first expedition to Mt. Everest leads him to search for an esteemed climber who went missing.

Brussels, Belgium, 1959. Michel and Charly Kichka, two Jewish brothers, enjoy a happy childhood with their parents and their two sisters. Henri, their discreet and usually silent father, does not speak at all about his past, so they imagine that as a young man he was an adventurer, a pirate or a treasure hunter.

On the ice field, the Eskimos roused the polar bears, who playfully chased each other. Tired, they napped. The sun shone brightly, and the ice sheet melted. Why were eyes in the hole we dug? A large whale had arrived! The film uses simple lines and ink, combined with rich imagination, to create a fun and light-hearted three-dimensional space through hand-drawn animation.