August 11, 1999, an eclipse crosses Normandy… How can one have such an extraordinary event within reach and not to do something of it? A camera in Rouen, another in Fécamp, we record this event convinced that these images will lead us to the writing of a scenario.

One envisages it with the second meadows,
one knows the best place to observe it,
one it médiatise…

Not such a long time ago,
one saw the anger of the Gods there,
the end of the world,
the Apocalypse…

Let us find last once the eclipse of front,
that which made us howl like wild dogs,
that where darkness invaded the light…

There is not only the moon which passes in front of the sun… that, one does not see it! Especially the night ago in the middle of the day, there is also this violent one icy draught mysteriously synchronized, the stars which appear, the dogs which bark, the hearts which accelerate, the eyes which cry, the crowd which howls...... of joy? it is what it thinks, not! of fear actually.

There is also the brutal catch of conscience: the impossible one has just arrived, we are at the thank you of a small disordered state…

At all times, the eclipse represented a cataclysmic event. We can praise us today scientific explanations, perfect forecasts, data-processing simulations,: the feeling of anguish remains… All those which have one day lived a total eclipse you will say it: during a short moment, it is the end of the world!

This fear is animal, instinctive, ancestral, cultural even! afraid of the words, we are not are warned since our tender childhood: the eclipse is the most formidable setting in scene of nature.

Hergé - the Temple of the Sun

1999