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*- 3, 2, 1...

* Go!

- Thomas!

Thomas!

Thomas!

- Maman! - There.

It's the new software. I cannot take care of you during the holidays.

You're going to your father's.

- In Saint-Roman? - It will do you good.

- You're kidding?

- No. You'll see, 5 weeks. It will be good for you.

It will get you out of your head for a bit.

- I can take care of myself. - No.

You'll just stay stuck in front of that computer. You're going with your father.

- I don't want to go.

- Camargue is nice.

There are horses, the ocean. - Mosquitos.

- Mosquitos. - Great, super.

I'm not hungry. - Thomas, you're not excused!

- I studied a trajectory for geese

which is less dangerous than the one usually used.

I'm sure that this can work - Hello.

- It will allow us to save the species.

It's important to save a species, no? - Hello.

- It's our duty... - Christian!

I will tell you one last time.

The ministry has cut off funding.

Other priorities, unemployment...

Wild geese, it's the least of their worries.

Especially for an expedition which has little chance of success.

Hello, madame.

- An endangered species,

is just as important as unemployment.

- Mademoiselle has a meeting with you, for the photo

on next month’s exhibit. - Yes, of course.

(- 2 minutes!)

I'm not asking for grants, you could just rubber stamp it.

It's required! - You know the procedure.

Genetic testing, analysis performed before it can...

as you put it, be rubber stamped. - An exception...

- Even if this works with your 20 birds,

it needs to be repeated with at least...

200 geese to claim to have saved the species.

No, no. What I'm sayin is true,

I don't believe in your project.

- I explain again.

- No!

Listen, I authorized your unpaid leave,

that's enough! Enjoy your vacation

and shut the hell up about your damn birds!

Send in the journalist. - Mademoiselle,

you can go. - O.K.

- Hello, close the door, please.

- No...

Céline,

let's go grab a coffee. - You're a peach!

- Hey! Monsieur Le Tallec!

- What? - Your project is so passionate.

- Really? - It's great!

What I can't stand are people who sit around doing nothing.

Our society takes for granted the riches of nature.

If we don't take care of it, we will destroy it!

- For sure. You eavesdrop, is that it?

- It's my job, I'm a journalist.

I can help you .

- I do appreciate it, but you heard, it's dead in the water.

- Wait, you give up just like that, without a fight?

You will let your geese die?

- Well, there it is. I have to go, goodbye.

- Hey!

Take my card!

Call me! - Yes, yes.

- I can help you!

- Yeah right.

[SAVE OUR MARSH]

[HANDS OFF OUR MARSH]

[ENVIRONMENT IN DANGER]

Son of a bitch!

- 3,500 people signed the petition!

The prefect said that it would hardly change things. What a shame.

Do you realize? They're going to have to drain it all

for their industrial zone. The could have fucking done it elsewhere!

- That's for sure.

- They'll have to drain at least 50%.

Minimum!

It will no longer be a marsh but a pond. - I know.

Oh!

Excuse me, I hear someone.

I'm happy to see you.

- Me too.

Yes.

- Are we going to find something! - Yes, don't worry.

(It will be fine.)

Hi, Gérard!

He's the mayor. He is special but he's a good guy.

- What's new, how about some eggs?

There's a lot.

I brought you twenty.

Softly

or we will make an omelet and you don't have bacon.

- Always the funny one, Bjorn.

- One never jokes about bacon.

- OK. Open the door for me.

- They'll be fine.

You got it? - Yes, yes.

(Voilà.)

- If you managed to convince them,

the hardest part is nearly done.

One could say that you won the battle.

Let's go.

[Bird Island — Ornithological Park]

Let's go, Christian! We're a little behind!

- I don't know how you can live in this mess.

- You worry about your eggs and I'll take care of my apple.

- Stop drinking and driving.

- Come on, see you next month.

- What is that thing?

- I don't think that's a thing, it's your father. - Dad?

That does it, I'm not staying here.

- Where's my blue vase?

- Broken. - Shame.

- You want a soda? - Do you have wifi?

- No, I had to get rid of the box. - What?

- The waves, they're bad for the eggs.

- The eggs? - Yes.

To use the phone,

you have to go to the top of the observation tower.

There's a signal.

At least... Sometimes.

- Damn it. - Thomas!

You see.

He's 14. - And growing.

- What is that robe?

- This, it's a frock.

Let me explain: when the geese will hatch,

they must recognize me at once,

without taking me for a human.

They must be wary other humans.

Thanks to this,

they will trust me. I'm sort of like their father.

- With that robe, they will take you for their dad.

Is that right? Their daddy goose.

- That's the goal, anyway. - You [informal]

You [formal] raise geese?

- You can be informal with me.

Yes, I raise wild geese.

It's a endangered species

This is what you [formal] were watching... what you [informal] were watching.

I address you the same way. What you were looking at on the map.

I'm studying, in fact,

a new, less dangerous, migratory route.

Obviously, for them to follow it,

I have to show them the way.

- How does one show the way to a goose?

- One flies.

Go ahead, help yourself.

- Thomas! Come down, sweetie, we're leaving.

- It was nice to meet you. - Same here.

- Good luck. - Thanks.

- Let's go.

Take care of him. - Of course.

- Oh. My love!

OK. Thank you for being so welcoming.

- It went well. - Great.

- He's very nice... Paul?

- No, Julien.

- Can you stop your thing?

- No, the geese need to get used to the sound of the motor.

- Yeah.

Oh! Crap!

[The marvelous voyage of Nils Holgerson]

[through Sweden]

- Oh fuck!

Idiots! They don't give a damn!

It will never work this way.

- Crap! During the day, mosquitos, and at night, the rat.

The stupid hamster which runs around my room.

I can't sleep! I'm fed up!

- You're a genius!

Do you know that you're a genius?!

Genius!

* We have a couple Cricetus in the garden?

- Hamsters? Yes.

- If we find an endangered species

where construction is planned, the works stop

for how long?

*- It used to be 3 months, it went to 6.

Time for an investigation that the prefect must order.

*- OK! I have a favor to ask.

Yes, thank you, Jeanne, thank you! I could kiss you!

Yes!

Are you there? I'm going to run some errands.

Do you want to come? - No, I'm good.

- If you're afraid of the sun, you can stay inside.

I still have your Playmobils, if you want.

It's good you're outside, you're as white as an ass.

Careful, there's a mistral, it will mess up your hair.

- Mom, it's me.

There's nothing to do here. I'm bored.

Come get me, please.

- I told you you were a genius. - Yeah.

- Here, here is the proof that you're a genius.

- Yeah. - Those noises in your room...

In the barn...

- And so? - The hamster...

- That's hamster droppings? - Yep.

Diane Eva?

Hello. Christian Le Tallec here.

You remember, we met at...

Yes, of course, yes.

Would you possibly be interested

in doing a piece on a species we could save?

Of hamsters.

- Nobody cares about stories of rats and hamsters.

You have to stop with all this nature stuff.

It interests no one, it's no longer fashionable.

These stories for safeguarding wetlands are boring.

This thing with corporations which have been lying for years...

- Years? That's the problem!

Because even after all these years,

no one is doing anything. For exemple,

global warming, the consequences are disastrous!

Not to mention biodiversity.

The rate... - It's no.

- Are you listening to me?

- No!

Leave me alone, I have work.

- Here, this is for tomorrow. It's good, it's been approved.

- Christian!

Work has stopeed!

That's great! - Hello, Gérard.

- They found droppings, do you realize?

A sort of wild hamster

that lives here. - A hamster?

- An association received a call, they verified it

and bang! They found the rat shit.

Speaking of shit...

Yes, Nicole?

Yes, what? - Bye, Gérard.

- That's not my problem!

- He's weird.

- Yes, he's weird.

- Shit!

- Come, come. Enter.

- I did something stupid. - How so?

- Is it serious? - It's not serious, it's very serious.

Do you know why?

- No.

- We're going to be parents.

Ka, ka, ka!

It suits you very well. - Very funny.

- Ka, ka!

Ka, ka!

Ka, ka!

Ka!

Ka, ka!

Do you know why I talk to them? So that they get used to my voice.

Come. Come closer, look. Ka!

(Look, there. He's starting to move.)

You see the little black tip coming out? It's his beak.

Listen, can you hear them?

Can you hear them? Look, they hear us.

It is the first time they have heard. Ka!

He's actually answering us.

Look at that one!

His first look at us.

Come close. Come around.

Here. Here's this.

(Voilà.)

We're going to take him out to warm him up.

Voilà... Good.

Look at that.

Voilà.

What?

You were like this when you were born, gooey and ugly.

Birds recognize the first person they see as their parent.

It's called imprinting.

Thus, technically, you're his father.

- Really?

Here, now you're the father.

- OK, I'm the father.

But you're his mother.

Come, we'll put him here. There you go.

He'll warm up nicely here.

- You. You're unusual.