Par monts et par drailles (2026)

In the rugged Cévennes, Jean-Louis Perrier has walked with his flocks since 1965, a living symbol of an ancient shepherd’s way of life fighting to survive. Alongside a new generation of devoted herders, he upholds time-honored traditions—moving livestock on foot across vast distances, tending each animal with care. Yet this deep-rooted passion is under siege from all sides: the return of wolves, shrinking pastures, tightening regulations, and a fragile sheep economy. As he retraces the ancient drailles he’s followed for decades, he unveils a mental atlas carved into the land itself, while sounding a powerful warning about the slow disappearance of open terrain—the silent cost of abandoning migratory shepherding.