Françoise Burdinat, a former geographer and researcher in her sixties, decides to turn things around and move into freight transport. She invests all her savings in a 200-ton liner – that she names the “Soléa” – and sets sail for the Mozambique Channel!
From the Comoros Island to Zanzibar and Madagascar, Françoise transports cargos of all kinds. This documentary traces the atypical and galvanizing story of this woman who suddenly became shipowner and captain.
Direction: Denis Buttner
Production: Flair Production for France Télévisions