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Filmed in a small village in the southern Alps where he spends his family holidays, Pierre-Gilles de Gennes presents himself both personally and as a scientist in a series of interviews interspersed with scenes of everyday life and some simple manipulations through which he explains the major principles of physics on which he has worked. It was the field of polymer science which made him famous: he received the Nobel Prize for physics in 1991. De Gennes also addresses more general social…

The Irène Joliot-Curie Prizes reward initiatives that increase the numbers of girls studying scientific and technical subjects and improve the position of women in the sciences. Three prizes were awarded in 2003: Muriel Thomasset, a CNRS engineer, in the "incentive" category (initiatives promoting careers in science) The Association française des femmes ingénieurs, represented by its president Monique Moutaud, in the "support" category (initiatives aiding women in their…

Sciences historians do not only study texts, they also sometimes try to reconstitute past experiences. In this film, Soraya Boudia, who works at the CRHST (Center for Research in History of Science and Technology), tries to reproduce the measures realized by Marie Curie in order to calibrate radioactive sources.

One of the last remaining silkworm farmers describes her farm in the Ardèche, which produces cocoons for a silkworm production plant. This experimental station will provide high-quality silkworm eggs for the world market. At the same time, INRA researchers seeks to transform the silkworm into a protein producer, for pharmacological use.

A Gallo-Roman complex of potters workshops mixed with houses was discovered in the village of Sallèles d ' Aude near Narbonne. These workshops have runned from the 1st to the 3rd century AD; wine amphorae they produced were exported until the borders of the Roman Empire. Fanette Laubenheimer, a CNRS researcher, presents the whole archaeological site and the excavations which have been done there.