La montagne neuve (the new mountain) is the former name of a province located in the French department of Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, gateway to the Alps. This deeply rural and sometimes hostile territory is home to small, geographically deprived communities whose landscape blends reality and imagination. Cradled by the rhythm of the seasons, that pass one after the other, man, in this eternal cycle, must find his place and integrate with nature in order not to be rejected. A growing population, aware of the announced agony of a landlocked, isolated and desertified rural society, is becoming aware of the need to invent new ways of living in the territory.
