"Part of the film brings together a number of unusual, picaresque, mysterious and occasionally extraordinary characters you might well meet, or invent anywhere. We find them along river banks or in woods, in old, abandoned farms, in swamps, in tree tops and hidden dales. The characters of this story all do traditional, occasionally archaic or even totally invented jobs. It is to these actors of the river who play romantic and extravagant parts that a lot of this story is dedicated to."