La Loi du Phajaan

A love declaration to the intelligence and benevolence of elephants compared to the cruelty and stupidity of men... A defence of elephants and a real breath-taking condemnation of a cruel practice, the "phajaan", meaning "elephant crushing", an awful way to submit the animals that exists in some countries of Asia...
In the family of Kiet, every generation has its elephant trainer.  And his father understands that he is perpetuating tradition.  When he was ten, he took him to the forest to capture his first  elephant. For several days, the child must undergo the hard precepts of his father until the "Phajaan", a method of dressing animals, traditional and cruel, which aims to submit the animal under the human will. This will mark the boy forever, far more than the immense dangers in the forest that could kill them... And this story is told by this little boy grown old, and forever filled with remorse...