“To the sea” travels and lives through Europe, as the Danube itself, sweeping gracefully through and beyond political frontiers. A pathway linking West to East, at once poetic and concrete, it is a documentary film that adresses the senses and the mind. Beginning in the Black Forest and running its course all the way to the shores of the Black Sea, the film brings stories, encounters with people and landscapes from Germany, Austria, Slovakia, Hungary, Bulgaria and Romania. The combination makes for a visual equivalent to epic verse, sensual and rhythmic, travelling eastward… drawn by the light. As much a record of what is slipping away as of current events, documenting what is disappearing alongside what is emerging, “To the sea” questions and experiments with notions of time. Perhaps the river is just a pretext… The timelessness of the Danube’s journey and the temporal world of the people living on its banks mirror each other. The film reflects life stories, great and small, beyond the diversity of the people and the countries that the river runs through.