El optimismo del tiempo

An exploration from Mongolia to Central Asia, traversing the imagined landscape of a land dominated by an artificial world. Home to the world's highest paved roads, forgotten remnants of the Soviet Union, valleys and ghost towns along the Gobi Desert, resisting climate change: an adventure exploring human construction: the ancestral, nomadic herders on the verge of disappearing. Young people abandon transhumance to settle in cities, seeking the progress they never had, only to find poverty and loneliness.

A review of uncontrolled and accelerated development, pollution and environmental disasters, the vanished life of the Aral Sea, epic cultural and architectural remains of cities from a fallen empire, now ruins once traversed by one of the most extraordinary emperors in history, the path of Temujin, Genghis Khan.