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This is the fabulous story of a mother, Glinda, and her son, Chantz, so named because he should never have been born. Glinda and Chantz hail from the “old American South”, from the Mississippi, that land where the legend of the Gospels merges into unchanging poverty. Chantz is now 13 years old. He has been playing the trumpet since he was four. His extraordinary gifts attact the sympathy of the public and the most famous artists. Chantz and his mother spend their life on the road, with no fixed abode, dependant on the people they meet and on invitations. Of course, they follow the legendary Route 66, and the paths of the world, from sleazy motels to luxury hotels, from LA to NY, from Paris to London and Tokyo. Chantz plays and dances in the street and subway, but also on the world’s most prestigious stages. But Chantz is more than just the child prodigy of a Pygmalion mother, he is the hope of a woman bent on fleeing poverty. Together they make their way along the road to hoped-for success, in a dangerous and uncertain errant life full of joys and sorrows. Mediated by the filmmaker, their composition is played out before our eyes.

France / United Kingdom - 2003 - 1 h 25 mn - Betacam Digital - Colour

Director Mohamed Kounda Script Mohamed Kounda Camera Mohamed Kounda Sound Mohamed Kounda Editing Julie Martinovic, Agathe Devaux-Charbonnel Music Chantz Powell

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