Where They Went

On My Way (2013)

Directed by Emmanuelle Bercot

A restaurant owner in Brittany walks out in the middle of lunch service, drives off with no plan and ends up taking her young grandson across France, from the Atlantic coast to the mountains of Auvergne.

  • Travel shown
  • On foot, bike, skis or swimming
  • Not shown on screen
  • Fictional place
  1. 1Bettie's restaurant
    Brittany, France
    ≈ 00:02:00
    Stated on screen

    Her lover has left her, the bank is pressing and her mother interferes, so she leaves mid-service saying she is going for cigarettes.

  2. 2Country roads
    Brittany, France
    ≈ 00:15:00
    Inferred

    She keeps driving through the countryside, looking for cigarettes and drifting through a night of chance encounters.

  3. 3Reunion of former beauty queens
    Savoie, France
    ≈ 01:00:00
    Stated on screen
  4. 4Charly's grandfather's house
    Auvergne, France
    ≈ 01:30:00
    Inferred

The journey in numbers

Distance travelled
1,047 km
Places
3
Countries
1
Stops
4
  • Car: 1,047 km

Distances are measured in a straight line between stops, so real road distances are longer.

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