The objective of this TV documentary series is to introduce the viewer to the greatest desert in the world, namely the Sahara which surface area reaches 9 065 000 square kilometres and notably the Grand Oriental Erg in Tunisia and the Fezzan in Libya.
In this complex ecosystem, animals and plants developed amazing strategies of adaptation in order to resist extreme conditions of temperature and drought.
Indeed, the Tunisian and Libyan deserts are natural laboratories where nature itself acts and reacts uninterruptedly in a perpetual and everlasting movement, very much as in the beginning of the creation of our earth.
Arid soils that remain almost 12 months without precipitation and wake up again to life with the first raindrops. Living organisms with outstanding physiological resistance. Sand dunes which travel across huge distances under the effect of winds, reaching amazing speeds, sometimes up to 100 metres per year. Fossils that constitute a strong evidence of the richness and biological diversity of the deserts throughout geological eras. Finally, men that lived here since immemorial times and their civilisations mastering the arts – paintings and stone carving – a rupestral art which is a living account of our ancestors, nearly 15.000 years ago.
