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(Emilie Simon)
"All is white"
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All is white
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I think it snowed
in the night
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Everything is cold
So cold outside
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I listen to the wind
All alone
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I know it means
the storm will come
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I want to live in paradise
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I want to live in the South
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I want to live in paradise
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At the south of the earth tonight
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All is white
I know it snowed in the night
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Everything is cold
So cold outside
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I try to be calm
It's a lonely trip

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Listen to my eyes
Listen to my lips
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I want to live in paradise
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I want to live in the South
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I want to live in paradise
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At the south of the earth tonight
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Once upon a time a garden
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A fertile world where life was a given
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A long time ago - before winter
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But one day, everything was blanked
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plants, animals
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Those who could flee
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did so, but our ancestors
decided to stay.
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At any cost
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And to resist tothis frost
which was taking everything
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Time has passed
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100 times, Earth has changed its face
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We are still there
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We stand, light sentinels.
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Here is our story.
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Where are the others?
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I feel dizzy
leaving the Ocean.
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Here we are, our two feets
in the snow,
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in this country
too large for us.
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Are we all here?
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Everybody's here?
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A day passes,
and another...
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and the third day...
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We gathered all here today,
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from the straightest to the
hunchbakcs, all of us
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Waiting for the signal
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The signal...
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...comes at last.
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In this great day,
One third into the year,
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when the moon and the sun
meet at half day,
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we, swimmers, stand up
and start to walk.
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Our kind is forever shared between
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the ocean which feeds us
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and on the other side
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beyond the great plain
the ice covered ocean,
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...a meeting.
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We've got a rendez vous.
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Now standing up

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we walk, like nomads,
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we walk one day,
two days
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ten days, twenty days.
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The same number of nights
the same number of cold nights
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Here comes the time
of the first walk
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The walk of the long caravans
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Above us, the sky's
paths are shining
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The sun, the stars draw
eternal maps
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Under our feets, Earth's
heart humms...
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Humms its beautiful
magnetic fields
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Each year,
our trek takes a new turn
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Icebergs are like giant tramps
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They sleep wherever winter catches
up with them!

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Sometimes we have to make long detours
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Going around the sleeping titans.
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But even the oldest amongst us
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cannot remember ever being lost
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Despite the cold
engulfing the plain
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despite the dreamy mountains' walls
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caravans from all 4 corners of the horizon
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are gathering - nearly
the same day
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at the same time, at the same place.
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As if by magic.
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10 days pass
and thousands of steps
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And another 10 days
another thousands of steps
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...and one morning
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Our people gets

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Here are the stone doors
that witnessed our birth
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Since the dawn of times
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It's here, on the Oamock (river?)
that we meet
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every year to give life.
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No place is safer
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Protected by granite walls
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and the ice beneath our feet
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will not break until summer.
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No more order, no more steps
we all freely roam the crowd
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...looking for our soulmate.
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Love songs cover the Oamock
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We marry for the whole year
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to a single partner.
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Every yearit's the same.

As soon as we arrive...
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...it's slapping time.
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More females than males!
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Females fierciously fight for us :-)
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A new couple?
They intervene.
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A married male is a lost male...
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So they dive in,
push their way in.
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Other couples wait.
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Those who, like us
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have already found
each other...
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...isolate themselves in the intimacy
of songs and parades.
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Our nuptial dance
is opening the big winter's bal
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(Emilie Simon)
"The Frozen World"
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Won't you open for me

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The door to your ice world
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To your white desert
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I just want to stare
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Out over these snowfields
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Until we are one again
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We belong to
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the frozen world
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When the ice
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begins to thaw
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Becomes the sea
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You will see
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How beautiful we can be
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You will see
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How beautiful we
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can be

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Everything is cold
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At the end of the planet
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In our white desert
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The sun kissed the ice
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It glistens for me
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And we are one again
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We belong to the frozen world
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When the ice
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begins to thaw
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Becomes the sea
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You will see
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How beautiful we
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can be
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We are going to dance
for the longest of winters
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We'll lose and find

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If our ballet is harmonious,
we shall survive
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Too bad for those who
couldn't follow
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those who are erring, lost,
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those who are late or weak.
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At the desert's mercy,
far from the Oamock's granite walls
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Without the groups' strength,
the solitary is condemned.
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Those the march forgot slowly fade.
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Here, white reigns what dies
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...is erased.
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Already, winter's first tears come.
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Soft tears, like
souvenirs from the sea
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Love was proclaimed,
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Love was made,

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all those around us keep quiet.
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In the warmth of our bodies,
a promise of life starts
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A moon passes
and we wait.
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A moon passes
and we wait.
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Another moon
and we wait.
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Another moon
and we wait.
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Comes the 3rd moon,
the time has come.
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With our feathers, we have to cover life
the moment it appears
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...hide it.
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Cold is everywhere
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This mini heart's tremor,
hidden in its shell
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is so vulnerable in
this huge ice land.
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Here, you need much more life

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From now on, each of our move
aims at one single thing:
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keep him alive.
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I'm worn out.
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I need to go back to the sea,
eat to keep
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my body awake.
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Yet, before, I need to
give the egg to his father.
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Life contained in the egg
won't resist the frost's bite
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No more than a few seconds
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Some couples, like this one
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are too nervous
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Frost bites and breaks
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the treasure of the hurried,
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the clumsy, the unlukcy.
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Their dance is over,
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their year is lost.
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Now without an aim,
they'll go,
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in an errand towards the ocean.
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100 times, we patiently repeat
the dance...
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...before passing the egg.
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Again and again,
we repeat the litany
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of our songs,
of our charms.
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Again and again,
we repeat the litany
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of our songs,
of our charms.
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In our dance's balancing act
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lies the perfect movement
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This little step, this little step.
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I'm leaving,

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I have to walk to the ocean.
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I'll stay with our egg,
I will cover it.
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My belly's warmth will
protect until your return.
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Go back to the ocean
and its food feasts.
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And make sure you're back in time,
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too feed our soon-to-born baby.
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We'll wait for you.
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It's time for the 2nd walk,
the march at dawn.
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For the first time,
dancers separate.
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I'm starving.
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Our food is over there,
beyond the desert.
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Yet only here,
on the Oamock's solid ice...
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can our baby be born.

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We'll go to the sea,
they'll stay here.
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They'll walk,
we'll wait.
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Two month...
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of misery,
and fight to try to...
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...preserve life.
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For the last few days,
the sky above darkens.
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The sun, the mountains,
the settings change.
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It's like hearing winter
preparing its first blow.
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We look like circus artists
with this egg on our feet.
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We're now a single body
rolling itself
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like a storm roll.
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We'll hold.
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Same winter we walk again and again

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Cruel irony, on the ocean's back
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we're looking for the door.
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Here, under the ice, fishes swim.
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Here, on the ice, the storm blows.
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The starving walkers suffer.
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The smell of water...
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We can smell the water.
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The entrance isn't far.
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Here we are.
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The ocean at last!
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Caress of the water,
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everywhere, the light shows
the way to the abyss.
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Over there, past the blue
gateway to the deep,
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...the table is ready.
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"Song of the sea"
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See
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how I fly
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In the sea
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Like in the sky
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You set me free
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Sometimes, the wind leaves a bit
of fresh snow for us
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...it quenches our thirst.
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3 months without any food!
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We defy winter and reach
life's limits.
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Some pass the border,
they fall asleep, slowly.
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White spreads little by little
over their body,
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which disappear forever.
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Nightime
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...we crawl under the storms,
cold rules.
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It has no name.
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We hold without failing, under
the mother of all blizzards
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melded together, a single body,
like the scale
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...of turltes are fitted.
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Night's daughters wear their
best veils.
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They run
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...under the stars,
dance to the wind's song.
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Be courageous, enslaved people,
this dance is going
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To the sky's limit,
looking for the sun who forgot us.
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How soft is
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the sea's water!
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We enjoy the ocean
as long as we can.
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But on the Oamock, life
will soon need us.
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With a single jawbite,
the monster erased two lives
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...the life of the trapped mother
and that of her baby
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who will never be fed.
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We are still petrified
by terror.
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Around us, the night
has the smell of frost
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we remember the ice's noise
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so different from the ocean's songs
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It's time for the return
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time for the 3rd march,
the walk of the moon.
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In the endless night,
we find our way to our land of cold.
271
00:42:08,720 --> 00:42:10,836
We bring back lots of food
to feed our babies.
272
00:42:11,120 --> 00:42:13,475
People are waiting for us.
273

00:42:13,680 --> 00:42:14,999

We have to hurry.
274
00:43:19,000 --> 00:43:20,877
Our gaping night takes forever
275
00:43:21,160 --> 00:43:23,754
...and get bogged,
a 100 days long night,
276
00:43:23,960 --> 00:43:26,315
filled with cold
and turmoil.
277
00:43:27,360 --> 00:43:31,433
Yet... this morning...
something...
278
00:43:31,720 --> 00:43:32,914
...sparkles in the air.
279
00:43:35,320 --> 00:43:38,198
The light is back.
280
00:44:06,440 --> 00:44:08,795
We have vainquished winter.
281
00:44:40,760 --> 00:44:41,795
Life...
282
00:44:42,440 --> 00:44:46,638
so small, so beautiful, unreal
in this cold that erodes us.
283
00:44:46,840 --> 00:44:49,400
We reached
the summit of our torment.
284
00:44:49,600 --> 00:44:52,717
From now on, each day
will bring a stronger sun,
285
00:44:53,880 --> 00:44:56,758
which frees the youngs
from their shells.
286
00:44:58,640 --> 00:44:59,755

Where are they?

287
00:45:01,080 --> 00:45:02,354
But where are they?
288
00:45:20,840 --> 00:45:23,434
How long have we
been going around like that?
289
00:45:24,280 --> 00:45:26,874
Dawn's first glow has
awaken winter.
290
00:45:27,080 --> 00:45:28,877
It enrages, it increases.
291
00:45:29,120 --> 00:45:31,395
Cold is so strong that it finally...
292
00:45:31,720 --> 00:45:32,994
...froze the wind.
293
00:45:33,520 --> 00:45:36,557
It tighten its grip on us,
locks us stronger,
294
00:45:36,800 --> 00:45:38,438
...clenches stronger.
295
00:45:39,120 --> 00:45:42,556
So we turn, so as not
to be too exposed to the cold
296
00:45:42,760 --> 00:45:44,034
...our back to the cold.
297
00:45:44,760 --> 00:45:48,196
Heat exists, at the turtle's hearth,
hidden under the heads.
298
00:45:48,880 --> 00:45:52,316
At our feet, babies appear,
always more plentiful.
299
00:46:07,160 --> 00:46:08,195
Where are they?

300
00:46:15,280 --> 00:46:17,396
As soon as they hatch out,
the babies are hungry.
301
00:46:17,680 --> 00:46:20,274
The mothers have to
come back!
302
00:46:20,480 --> 00:46:23,313
In this cold,
their energy fades so quickly.
303
00:47:06,600 --> 00:47:10,593
And I am exhaused,
4 months without any food.
304
00:47:10,800 --> 00:47:11,835
I am empty.
305
00:47:12,080 --> 00:47:15,675
Barely enough to walk
another 20 days.
306
00:47:16,120 --> 00:47:20,033
20 days... the eternity
that separates us from the ocean.
307
00:47:20,560 --> 00:47:23,677
So this evening, if his mother
hasn't come back,
308
00:47:24,000 --> 00:47:26,753
...I'll have to go,
abandon my child.
309
00:47:42,080 --> 00:47:46,198
But before we give up,
there's still a chance.
310
00:47:49,040 --> 00:47:51,554
The hidden part,
a few crumbles...
311
00:47:51,760 --> 00:47:54,115
...preserved deep inside my body,
312
00:47:54,320 --> 00:47:56,276

...despite these months of starvation.

313
00:47:58,680 --> 00:48:02,878
A few more hours of life.
I had kept them...
314
00:48:03,480 --> 00:48:06,517
...for you,
in expecation of this moment.
315
00:48:07,960 --> 00:48:11,794
Who will win?
Life or winter?
316
00:48:15,080 --> 00:48:17,958
For some,
it's already too late.
317
00:48:38,600 --> 00:48:41,319
We walk, and in us,
life shrieks:
318
00:48:41,520 --> 00:48:43,158
Hurry up!
Hurry up!
319
00:48:43,480 --> 00:48:47,519
He, she, is born, needing you,
He, she will not hold for long, now.
320
00:49:18,320 --> 00:49:21,995
Frightened for no reason,
a lot of wasted time.
321
00:50:06,160 --> 00:50:07,559
We push our speed.
322
00:50:10,080 --> 00:50:12,958
The wind brings puffs
of familiar scents.
323
00:50:13,160 --> 00:50:15,754
The colony's not far,
faster!
324
00:50:21,680 --> 00:50:22,954
The Oamock, at last!

325
00:50:24,880 --> 00:50:26,233
Who will I find?
326
00:50:27,040 --> 00:50:30,157
Is my baby dead?
Is he or she still alive?
327
00:51:25,520 --> 00:51:27,078
Where in this crowd are you?
328
00:51:28,600 --> 00:51:29,635
Where are you?
329
00:51:43,320 --> 00:51:46,198
This voice...
This chant coming towards me...
330
00:51:46,680 --> 00:51:48,875
This baby calling,
is he or she mine?
331
00:51:49,080 --> 00:51:50,638
Come on, sing!
332
00:52:27,320 --> 00:52:28,435
You did hold!
333
00:52:30,480 --> 00:52:31,993
You came back in time!
334
00:52:32,640 --> 00:52:33,755
You are still here.
335
00:52:35,200 --> 00:52:39,113
And you, I only meet you now,
my marvelous son of the winter,
336
00:52:39,880 --> 00:52:40,995
...my little baby.
337
00:52:54,360 --> 00:52:58,478
Do you remember the dance,
our songs in the times of love?
338
00:52:58,800 --> 00:52:59,676
Here they are again...

339
00:52:59,960 --> 00:53:02,315
...renewed to celebrate
your return.
340
00:53:17,040 --> 00:53:20,476
I must take our child,
and you must leave hastilly.
341
00:53:21,040 --> 00:53:23,918
A short moment,
a precious moment.
342
00:53:25,040 --> 00:53:26,996
Within one step, we'll be separated,
343
00:53:27,240 --> 00:53:31,358
...Soon we'll be 1 000 winters apart,
let's make the most of it!
344
00:54:01,400 --> 00:54:02,674
Another instant.
345
00:54:04,360 --> 00:54:05,918
Youngster, listen carefully
to my voice
346
00:54:06,160 --> 00:54:09,277
...thanks to my voice
you'll recognise me one day.
347
00:54:34,000 --> 00:54:37,037
I'd like to be able to
promise I'll come back.
348
00:54:39,600 --> 00:54:41,158
It's my turn to leave.
349
00:54:41,480 --> 00:54:44,074
My strength desert me,
I have to complete...
350
00:54:44,280 --> 00:54:46,555
...the most dangerous
part of the trip:
351
00:54:46,800 --> 00:54:48,358

the march of the starved ones.

352
00:54:48,680 --> 00:54:50,159
The ultimate march,
353
00:54:50,560 --> 00:54:54,314
the march which decimates us
every year.
354
00:55:58,120 --> 00:56:00,475
Here it comes at last - renewal.
355
00:56:01,920 --> 00:56:04,559
Slowly, light blossoms
on the Oamock.
356
00:56:18,320 --> 00:56:22,233
Like the sun, our youngs
grow stronger day by day.
357
00:56:22,720 --> 00:56:23,835
But summer is still far.
358
00:56:24,160 --> 00:56:27,516
No way we'll let our youngs out.
359
00:56:27,840 --> 00:56:30,274
They are so frail,
They need...
360
00:56:30,600 --> 00:56:31,999
our warmth.
361
00:56:32,840 --> 00:56:34,637
Around us,
362
00:56:34,920 --> 00:56:36,035
frost lurks.
363
00:57:23,320 --> 00:57:25,914
10 days pass by
then 10 more days.
364
00:57:27,880 --> 00:57:30,758
And one beautiful morning...
365

00:57:32,000 --> 00:57:35,276

I am going for my first walk
by myself!
366
00:57:36,120 --> 00:57:37,473
Oh, it's like a nettle...
367
00:57:37,760 --> 00:57:38,875
under the paw (clawed feet)!
368
00:57:41,680 --> 00:57:44,035
I'm cold!
It's funny, it tickles!
369
00:57:47,440 --> 00:57:51,035
Here, my first walk,
the march of the free chick!
370
00:58:09,880 --> 00:58:12,758
Cold is bringing them back
under our paws.
371
00:58:13,000 --> 00:58:14,877
But they made...
372
00:58:15,160 --> 00:58:18,118
...the great jump.
A page of their life has been turned.
373
00:59:03,600 --> 00:59:06,478
We haven't seen snow running like that.
374
00:59:06,680 --> 00:59:09,319
Adults sqeeze together,
they are worrying.
375
00:59:09,520 --> 00:59:11,397
This wind is no bearer of good news.
376
00:59:11,960 --> 00:59:13,598
The dying winter is kicking us...
377
00:59:13,880 --> 00:59:15,438
...with it last blizzard.
378
00:59:15,680 --> 00:59:18,353
We think cold lost

its arrogance,
379
00:59:18,640 --> 00:59:21,279
...but our youngs think otherwise.
They'll have to be strong.
380
00:59:21,560 --> 00:59:23,596
The time of their initiation has come.
381
00:59:23,840 --> 00:59:26,957
It's the dreaded moment of
their first turmoil.
382
00:59:27,240 --> 00:59:31,233
Can't you hear my storm coming
Stones falling on to you
383
00:59:34,840 --> 00:59:38,913
Can't you feel the earth shaking
Big dark clouds forming now
384
00:59:41,080 --> 00:59:43,913
And I hope you're satisfied
385
00:59:44,920 --> 00:59:47,639
I hope you're satisfied
386
00:59:48,400 --> 00:59:50,197
I hope you're satisfied
387
00:59:51,360 --> 00:59:53,157
To see the wind
388
00:59:53,440 --> 00:59:55,874
blow over me
389
00:59:57,920 --> 01:00:00,195
Can't you hear my sky shouting
390
01:00:00,520 --> 01:00:02,238
Close, chasing after you
391
01:00:05,280 --> 01:00:09,398
Deep, dark fear building up
It's too strong for you
392

01:00:12,080 --> 01:00:15,117

And I hope you're satisfied
393
01:00:16,400 --> 01:00:17,958
I hope you're satisfied
394
01:00:19,480 --> 01:00:22,517
I hope you're satisfied
395
01:00:23,360 --> 01:00:25,078
To see the wind
396
01:00:27,920 --> 01:00:30,195
Blow
397
01:00:30,560 --> 01:00:32,596
over me
398
01:00:38,080 --> 01:00:40,674
Can't you hear my storm coming
399
01:00:41,640 --> 01:00:43,198
Stones falling
400
01:00:45,520 --> 01:00:48,318
Big dark clouds
401
01:00:48,600 --> 01:00:50,238
forming now
402
01:01:45,880 --> 01:01:50,396
The wind leaves, on its trail,
mothers looking for their child.
403
01:01:51,040 --> 01:01:53,156
Trembling lost chicks.
404
01:01:55,720 --> 01:01:59,156
And a harvest of lost lives,
swept away by the cold.
405
01:02:49,880 --> 01:02:52,838
All these efforts broken
by a gust of wind.
406
01:03:00,280 --> 01:03:01,838

Some find it unbearable.

407
01:03:02,080 --> 01:03:03,638
They need a child, at any price.
408
01:03:03,840 --> 01:03:07,037
Life has to keep on growing
on their feet.
409
01:03:07,600 --> 01:03:11,354
So, they perpetrate the most
inconceivable act.
410
01:03:11,680 --> 01:03:14,114
In a moment of crazyness,
the steal...
411
01:03:14,440 --> 01:03:15,839
...someone else's child.
412
01:03:59,280 --> 01:04:03,159
That was just! I thought they
would crush me!
413
01:04:03,480 --> 01:04:04,595
You saved me!
414
01:04:06,880 --> 01:04:08,279
It feels good to be close to you.
415
01:04:58,760 --> 01:05:01,433
Happy birthday, short legs!
One month ago...
416
01:05:01,720 --> 01:05:04,075
...we were hatching out of our shells,
now we run.
417
01:05:04,280 --> 01:05:05,156
Not bad, innit?
418
01:05:05,400 --> 01:05:08,517
We don't even need our mothers
to get warm.
419
01:05:08,920 --> 01:05:11,036
Sometimes, we'd really like to...

420
01:05:11,360 --> 01:05:13,396
...go under the warm duvet.
421
01:05:21,600 --> 01:05:25,434
There's always one or two
who slouch in the pockets.
422
01:05:25,760 --> 01:05:28,513
They pretend to be cold,
but for them, same system:
423
01:05:28,720 --> 01:05:31,757
Stand up, your two paws
on the ice, and walk!
424
01:05:32,320 --> 01:05:34,038
When time's up,
time is up!
425
01:05:34,360 --> 01:05:36,476
Now, we are
in-de-pen-dent!
426
01:05:46,080 --> 01:05:48,275
When we are cold,
there's the child care centre.
427
01:05:48,680 --> 01:05:51,717
Not bad, we aggregate
and keep warm.
428
01:05:52,640 --> 01:05:54,517
A bit like our fathers
making a big turtle.
429
01:05:54,720 --> 01:05:56,597
But it's hard to stay in place.
430
01:06:47,880 --> 01:06:51,077
I'm going to have to leave you alone,
I'll be back quickly.
431
01:06:51,480 --> 01:06:54,358
I need to go and fish
to nourish you.
432

01:06:54,680 --> 01:06:58,116

You'll stay here,
your father should be there soon.
433
01:06:59,480 --> 01:07:01,357
You'll recognise his chant.
434
01:07:01,720 --> 01:07:03,073
He'll recognise yours.
435
01:07:11,840 --> 01:07:14,354
I'm not too fond of
staying alone.
436
01:07:16,200 --> 01:07:17,838
Wait! I'm a little bit afraid.
437
01:08:47,120 --> 01:08:47,996
Alert!
438
01:08:48,320 --> 01:08:51,153
The long wings are coming!
Hurry, to the day care centre!
439
01:08:51,440 --> 01:08:54,000
Oh! What about those ones,
left alone over there!
440
01:10:55,960 --> 01:10:59,236
It's over for that one.
She'll never see the sea.
441
01:11:49,000 --> 01:11:51,116
Here they come!
The fathers are back!
442
01:11:51,960 --> 01:11:53,916
Is my father with them?
443
01:12:37,200 --> 01:12:40,954
Yes, it's him, I'm know it.
Yes, it's you, I know it.
444
01:13:05,400 --> 01:13:07,277
Adults keep on going and coming back.
445
01:13:07,520 --> 01:13:08,555

They have two sides:

446
01:13:08,800 --> 01:13:11,473
The white one, it's the full bellies
coming back.
447
01:13:11,680 --> 01:13:14,558
The black one, empty bellies leaving.
448
01:13:14,800 --> 01:13:17,758
As for us, front or back,
we are grey.
449
01:13:18,000 --> 01:13:19,513
We are always hungry!
450
01:13:41,720 --> 01:13:43,915
Sometimes come days
we can't even dream of.
451
01:13:44,200 --> 01:13:46,634
For weeks, we have
fed our kid...
452
01:13:46,880 --> 01:13:49,553
...separated, never meeting up.
453
01:13:49,840 --> 01:13:53,116
And here we are, reunited
by the finest of all hasards.
454
01:13:59,840 --> 01:14:02,957
Our kid is strong,
our kid is lovely.
455
01:14:05,600 --> 01:14:07,955
On the wake of the last march,
456
01:14:08,160 --> 01:14:11,197
let's promise to meet
for next season...
457
01:14:11,440 --> 01:14:14,238
...to dance again,
maybe tie the knot...
458
01:14:14,520 --> 01:14:16,158

...for another winter.

459
01:14:41,040 --> 01:14:43,634
It's been a few days,
it's always sunny...
460
01:14:43,920 --> 01:14:46,593
...and there's no night.
The icefield groans,
461
01:14:46,880 --> 01:14:48,996
...it looks like it wants to leave.
462
01:15:03,200 --> 01:15:04,679
It's time to depart.
463
01:15:05,360 --> 01:15:08,318
The ocean calls me,
it will call you soon.
464
01:15:08,560 --> 01:15:11,597
To life, little son of winter,
to life!
465
01:15:28,680 --> 01:15:31,274
There ends our last march.
466
01:15:31,560 --> 01:15:34,597
The separation march,
that of the return...
467
01:15:34,880 --> 01:15:38,236
...to the sea. We leave
the Oamock for this year.
468
01:15:38,480 --> 01:15:42,473
The time of the couples has passed away,
the dance is finished.
469
01:15:42,680 --> 01:15:45,717
The dancers leave their separate way.
470
01:16:13,160 --> 01:16:13,956
We return to...
471
01:16:14,200 --> 01:16:16,236
the water for the year's most

beautiful moons.
472
01:16:16,480 --> 01:16:19,836
Three months of ocean,
Three months of summer,
473
01:16:20,120 --> 01:16:21,439
...of swimming and pleasure!
474
01:16:27,480 --> 01:16:29,596
These last few days,
we feel strange.
475
01:16:29,880 --> 01:16:32,394
We don't even want to eat,
maybe...
476
01:16:32,680 --> 01:16:34,398
...we are becoming adults?
477
01:17:01,080 --> 01:17:03,878
Time for us to answer the call.
478
01:17:04,080 --> 01:17:06,355
Like our parents came
from the sea,
479
01:17:06,600 --> 01:17:09,273
...it's our turn
to walk towards the ocean.
480
01:17:09,480 --> 01:17:12,199
We leave the Oamock
to join our people...
481
01:17:12,480 --> 01:17:14,755
...in the gentle deep.
482
01:17:57,520 --> 01:17:59,476
Little ice walkers,
here comes the time...
483
01:17:59,800 --> 01:18:01,836
...of metamorphosis,
we became...
484
01:18:02,160 --> 01:18:05,755

...children of the ocean,

amongst children of the ocean.
485
01:18:28,280 --> 01:18:32,114
One day, far away,
this famous day of 1/3 of the year
486
01:18:32,320 --> 01:18:35,357
...when the sun and the moon
meet in the sky,
487
01:18:35,600 --> 01:18:36,919
...we'll have to jump...
488
01:18:37,160 --> 01:18:39,355
...out of the sea and become
walkers again.
489
01:18:39,600 --> 01:18:42,160
Faithfull to our forefathers' oath,
490
01:18:42,360 --> 01:18:44,635
...we'll come back here
to dance for life...
491
01:18:44,840 --> 01:18:48,719
...during the biggest winter,
and perpetuate...
492
01:18:48,920 --> 01:18:50,638
...the march of the Emperor.
493
01:18:57,680 --> 01:19:01,877
Subs CEDRA PRODUCTlONS
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