Alice is a young American who loves China, his language, his traditions. She stayed there to live and work, but mostly to flee away from a racist politician
dad. She also hopes to meet there the
love of her life, her husband. Her dream is on the way to come true when she is appointed as translator on a palaeontological expedition. The Sino American searchers are going to follow the circuit of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin_the famous French Jesuit who wrote “Le Phénomène humain, 1955”. The aim of his mission is to find “L’homme de Pékin” bones, a Homo erectus specimen supposed to be hidden somewhere in China since 1941. The disappointment will be common and great when the scientists will notice the fossil has been stolen. Alice goes back suddenly to the United States at her dad’s bedside. He is seriously sick. Alice leaves painfully and sadly the country and the Chinese man with whom she was starting a wonderful love story.
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