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- A family living in the Jura mountains who are torn apart following the return of the son's biological father.
- Crime author Rousseau travels to Mouthe. Here, Brother Giacomo is waiting for him, who has important info about Rousseau's deceased mother. But when he arrives, Giacomo has just died. Rousseau decides to investigate.
- An emotionally cold man leaves the safety of his Alpine home to seek a heart transplant and an estranged son.
- In the Jura mountains, the silhouette of a boreal lynx slips through the beech and fir trees. He calls his female. This is the beginning of the story of a lynx family.
- A postman in a small mountain village finds a woman and her son both dead in the "grotte aux loups" (cave of wolves). He soon begins to realize than it's not natural death, and that someone in the village in behind their murder, while tragic events occur.
- An Italian lumberjack named Giovanni falls in love with a girl named Louise. What starts off as a whirlwind romance devolves Louise becoming a prisoner of passion.
- At age 12, Louis has two passions: Marie, the daughter of the village schoolteacher and the craft of woodturning, his father's work in the Jura Mountains where they live. When Marie gets sick, Louis secretly starts making new toys for her.
- Beginning of the journey at the Pilatus rack train: beautiful landscapes, pastures, ibex, the greatest slope in the world. Then Philippe goes to the Gruyère region: a very green area.There Philippe meets a cowboy (armailli) with his cow herd (100 cows), they are moving to the Alpine pastures (transhumance).Later some bearded men appear: there is a meeting of armaillis, they invite Philippe to eat fondue and sing "Le ranz des vaches", a traditional sing of the Armaillis.It's a brotherhood of men who love their earth and their traditions.Now Philippe is in Fribourg and takes the train to Berne: a lady explains that the Swiss people enjoy the nature, they are discreet, but also friendly; besides Switzerland is a land of dialogue and consensus.Later Philippe is in Emmental, the region which produces the famous cheese Emmental (with the holes inside).There Philippe meets a farmer who asked to a photographer to take picture of his cow and we see a photo shooting for the local newspaper.Then Philippe travels on the Montreux-Oberland train: with a pleasant passenger Philippe speak about money in Switzerland.Philippe returns to the lake of Geneva region (Lavaux and Lausanne) and then goes by train to the valley of Joux: there he will meet Marianne and Armand who are looking for tree barks and will prepare the famous "vacherin Mont d'or". Then Marianne , Armand and Philippe eat a piece of this famous cheese.Philippe makes a salt to Saint-Moritz and takes the Glacier Express from this town to Zermatt: in the mountain Philippe sees how men are building a new cable car station, the helicopter is bringing about 50 times a day concrete for for the building and Philippe travels back to the town by helicopter.
- The corpse of the healer Rose Tournault has been found in her house and the police captain Anna Buisson will be in charge of the investigation.When she arrives at the house of the dead, she meets Eymeric Massoni who is looking at the corpse of his grandmother which is covered with white petals.Then he presents himself as the grandson of the victim and precises that the petals are those of the thorn apple (Datura stramonium).Some years ago a dam was build : a village and some hamlets were sunken and some families lost their houses. There is a legend of a white lady who goes around the lake.
- A green break in the Jura: The Jura, 5,000 km2 of forests, lakes, vines, mountains. A diversity of landscapes that are the source of innumerable possible activities for the 260,000 Jurassians who live there. We meet some of the French whose home environment, with its thousand different facets, offers them so many perspectives.
- Philippe begins his winter journey in Gruyères: a little medieval town with a castle in the canton de Fribourg.The region is famous because its cheese: the Gruyère.Philippe takes now a train in which the passengers are eating fondue: instead of eating the fondue at home or in a restaurant, they sit in this train, enjoy the landscape and eat fondue in train with theirs parents or friends.Later near Montbovon Philippe goes to a forest ad meets there a group of men and women who are walking and doing exercises in the snow, they wear only bath suits.The leader of the group explains that this way they improve their physical and mental resistance.Then Philippe travels to Saint-Moritz, a very famous resort: there he can see skiers pulled by horses in the snow.He goes to a bobsleigh track and lives the experience of going down the bobsleigh track.Then Philippe goes to the Vallée de Joux, a place in the Swiss Jura mountains and meets there a master watchmaker, Philippe Dufour, a man who produces automatic and fine watches.Later Philippe is in Grindelwald where he takes the rack train to the Jungfraujoch station (3.454 meters above sea level) with a beautiful panorama on the Aletsch glacier.Finally Philippe goes to Lausanne and in the night he goes to the cathedral and meets the "guet": since 600 years there is a man in the tower of the cathedral who tells the hour and wishes to the people a good night.
- A nice journey of Jérôme from the "Cascades du Hérisson" and Les Rousses ( Célia Bourgeois, the cross-country skiing champion-the winner of the Transjurassienne-, the walk to the waterfalls,the travel by train-La Ligne des Hirondelles-,the snow shoes walk to the top of Les Rousses, the beautiful panorama of the Léman lake, the Alps and the Mont-Blanc) to Les Rousses again (Célia, Damien and the children looking at the daughter Elisa in the French championship of cross-country skiing U-15) passing by Morbier (the visit of the church Saint-Michel, Pierre Claude Mayet and the "horloge comtoise", the clock of the church installed in 1895, Denis Camelin -member of the Associatio de l'Horlogerie comtoise) and Gérard Bailly-Salins, watchmaker, the ice rink, Célia's husband, Damin Fleury, professional ice hockey player, the playing ice hockey and the snack at the river), by the Fort des Rousses (Jean-Charles Arnaud- the huge cellar with comté cheeses, the tasting of cheeses, the visit to the principality of Arbezie-the prince Bernard Arbez and Bérénice Salino the manager of the restaurant , the Swiss-French border in the middle of the restaurant), by Arbois (the wine maker Clémentine Baud, "La Percée du Vin jaune", the parade with the wine barrel, the blessing of the wine in the church and again the parade with brass bands, the singing and drinking of the new wine, the meeting with the family of Clémentine and the toast), and by the Parc Polaire (Gilles showing the yaks, red deers and European bisons). Besides we see zooms about the wildlife photographer Julien Arbez, about the biathlon athlete Quentin Fillon Maillet, about the Mont d'Or cheese, about the wooden toys, about the village of La Pesse, about the mountain refuge du Berbois and about the forests of the Jura.
- A nice excursion of Sophie from La Chaux-de-Fonds ( the photographer Jean-François Robert, the cross-country skiing, the eating of a fondue, the panorama from the Espàcité No 1), the talk about Le Corbusier, the visit of the Maison Blanche-the female guide explaining the concepts of Le Corbusier-the open spaces and the light in the rooms-, the cheese cellar and the cheese maker Pierre-Alain Sterchi and the biplane flight with Patrick Guern over the Jura mountain and the Neuchâtel lake) to Bern and Yverdon-les-Bains ( the walk in the famous arcades of Bern with the yodel singer Damaris Lauper and the seamstress Claudia Burri, the traditional Bernese costumes, Annelise Cavin and the rehearsal and the yodel concert in Yverdon-les-Bains) passing by Saignelégier-canton du Jura- ( the train conductor Olivier Luder, the 125 years of the Chemin de fer du Jura, the sculptor Alain Stocker and his model trains, the railways fans and the maintenance of a steam locomotive built in 1905, the the eating, drinking and accordion music in a wagon), by La Vue des Alpes (the musher Caroline and Morgan Clerc, the husky dogs, the dogsled tour), by La Chaux-de-Fonds ( Marlène Pini and Gérard Balanche and their guesthouse), by Neuchâtel (Vincent Steuder and his restaurant at the lake, the walk through the town, Sacha and the associative garden , the buying of organic vegetables, the chef Sébastien preparing the "Palée" fish- European whitefish,Coregonus lavaretus- with vegetables) and by Portalban ( the fisherman Claude Delley, the fishing moment on the lake of Neuchâtel, the fishing nets for the European whitefishes and the fishing of the "bondelle" fishes- Coregonus oxyrinchus, the smoking of the fishes, the boat-restaurant "Fribourg", the chef Béat Keusen and the meal of whitefish filets). Besides we see zooms bout the connection of the people with the nature, about the watchmaking in La Chux-de-Fonds, about La Brévine called the Swiss Siberia, about the people and the animals, about the chocolatiers in the Jura and the making of the absinthe in the Vallée de Travers.
- Beginning of the journey in Geneva: Sophie meets Annick Jeanmairet (television presenter) and they make a bike tour through the old town: they stop at the chocolaterie Berger-De Falentans and Sophie buys a little box of chocolate.Then Annnick and Sophie are at the Jet d'eau: Louis Richter shows them the operative room and suddenly the water is sent to 140 meters high with a speed of 200 kilometers/hour.Then Sophie goes to the "Floatinn -Swiss", a sailboat with 6 rooms for the guests: she is received by Jean-Luc Oestraicher and begin to navigate on the lake Léman.On the morning Sophie speaks with Nicolas Ostraicher about sailing on the lake Léman and Sophie disembarks at Yvoire: she goes to the grocery of Emmanuel Giroud (jambon de Savoie) and meets Anne-Monique d'Yvoire who invites her to visit the gardens of the castle (a labyrinth with different spaces for medicinal herbs, flowers, vegetables) and later they climb the tower of the castle and enjoy the panorama. On the next day Sophie travels with Annick to the Jura mountains (Vallée de Joux): they find Marianne Golay in the forest: Marianne is cutting pieces of the bark of a spruce (called sangles) that are using to wrap the Vacherin Mont d'Or cheese: at the "Fromagerie du Séchey" they meet Danièle Magnenat who is preparing the cheeses and they taste a Vacherin Mont d'Or.Back to the boat-inn Sophie meets Christophe : the itinerant chef Christophe has come and prepares fish burger and also a mousse of whitefish and they drink white wine. At Lausanne Sophie takes the train to Chexbres: where she meets Henri Chollet , a wine maker of the Vignoble du Lavaux (Unesco World Heritage site): Sophie takes part in the grape harvest , Vincent Chollet ( Henri's son) shows Sophie how the grapes are transformed in must and they taste the must.In the evening all the family and Sophie have supper and they taste a merlot wine.After that Sophie goes to the Diablerets and travels to the glacier by cable car: there Jan Theiler , the driver of the snowbus shows her the glacier and Gregory G'Staltr, the manager invites Sophie to a luge circuit. Besides we see zooms about sailing on the lake Léman , about the steamboats of the Compagnie Générale de Navigation, about the paragliding near Thonon, about Kim Chesney (the little plane pilot), about the "Givrés" (men and women who swim in the lake in summer and winter), the Orthodox Church in Geneva, about the Dauvet factory in Excenevez (the gold leaves), about the transhumance in the region of Saint-Cergues , about Serge Carraud the fisherman and his father René Carraud, and about the Hotel Royal in Evian-les-Bains (the famous guests, the vegetables garden and the chef Patrice Vander).