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Arrabal's sixth film based on his novel from 1969 with the same name as the movie.

Languepin criticizes the attitudes of motorists at the top of European mountain passes: they only think about taking photos, they don't even know which pass it is, they don't have time to look at the scenery.

With the tank truck of the company British Petroleum (BP), the Bozzetto fuel delivery man crosses mountain roads in winter. Headed to Val d'Isère in Savoie, it faces, night and day, the vagaries of traffic in snowy weather, and penetrates the life of the winter sports resort living to the rhythm of development activities. , sports and tourism: tunnel construction, snow milling machine, cable car, hotel and catering as well as skiing from the peaks to the village (off-piste descent demonstration by Lionel Terray).