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This film draws a very peculiar and poetic portrait of twenty researchers through science pictures from the CNRS images database.

Images have always been at the core of the scientific research. Thanks to computer processing and new visualization tools, they have acquired movement, volume and new resolutions, from the smallest atomic scale to cosmic dimensions. This film tries to give meaning to these 21 images and offers the keys to decode them.

The Centre d'études et de physiologie appliquée, a CNRS laboratory in Strasbourg, uses a vehicle driving simulator to understand the causes and symptoms of drivers' loss of attention at the wheel.

Proteins are macromolecules at the basis of the cell functions of living organisms. To know their functions, one must know their structure for the shape is closely related to the function. Using X-rays cristallography it is possible to visualize molecular structures. When an organic molecule in solution evaporate, a crystal deposit is formed. The crystals, lighted by an X-rays beam, produce a diffraction pattern which is used to reconstruct the structure of the molecule. The source for X…

In order to preserve the biodiversity of the several million plant and animal species, a gigantic census is necessary. This is the goal of taxonomy, the science of the classification of living things. Seven researchers from different disciplines - biologists, botanists, entomologists, and paleontologists - describe their work.

Sophora tomomiro is a legendary tree which used to grow abundantly on the Easter Island. This sacred tree, whose wood has an exceptional quality, disappeared from his natural biotope in the 1960 ' s.

Five researchers (Luc Montagnier, Daniel Prieur, Pierre Chambon, Alain Prochiantz and Christo Goridis) explain why animal models are used in the scientific research in order to understand mankind.

Presentation of the researches and the accomplished progresses about the trisomy 21, a chromosomal anomaly, which affects one person on 700 at birth.

Near the city of Strasbourg, the Centre for primatology Louis Pasteur is dedicated to the breeding of primates for the pharmaceutical laboratories and also to the study of their behavior.

Jean-Pierre Adolphe, a researcher in geomicrobiology, harvests a bacterium called “Bacillus”, which has the particularity to produce limestone. With his team, this researcher cultivates in laboratory the harvested sediments, in order to isolate these microorganisms and to make them reproduce after having determined precisely their nutritive needs. His project is to use these bacteria in order to make them produce stone which could be used to restore monuments and statues damaged by time and…

In the Hampont village in France, an abandoned dairy has been transformed into a fish farm. It raises particular fishes: the wels catfish, one of the biggest fresh water fishes, originating from the Danube.

Researchers at INSERM describe their works on the skin. They study the functions of the various cells which constitute the dermis and the epidermis : Langershans cells, keratinocytes, melanocytes. The aim of these researchs is to be able to regenerate the skin after an injury. For doing this, they must understand adhesion between dermis and epidermis and the rebuilding mechanism of the epidermis. In laboratories, cultures of cells are used to regenerate the skin of badly burnt patients.