L'APPEL DU SILENCE

February 2025, Yukon. Mathieu Blanchard embarks on one of the world’s most extreme races: the Yukon Arctic Ultra, a 600-kilometer trek on foot, semi-self-supported, through polar temperatures. But his goal is not victory. It is a plunge into the unknown. Inspired by Jack London’s The Call of the Wild, he follows in the footsteps of Buck, the domesticated dog turned wild. The cold, the isolation, the exhaustion shape a new man, far from the polished image the public knows. Deep in the frozen wilderness, he encounters the spirits of the First Nations, whose resilience may reveal the secret to his survival. “Something called to him, beyond the noise and the pain, a call as imperious as love, as strong as hunger”. That call is the call of silence.