Morocco, 1993. Emile Leray is an expert French traveler who has travelled far and wide across Africa at least 10 times. That year, he decided to face alone the expanses of Sahara’s desert, visiting the western part on a Citroën 2CV.
After several hours of driving, enough to be very distant from any city, Emile hit a rock and broke a car’s wheel and the axle-shaft.
In the middle of the desert, with food enough for only a couple of days, Emile found a way out – without any electronic supplement, using parts from his old Citroën, he constructed a motorcycle that would become his way to escape from the death in the middle of the desert.
After riding for a day, he met a police patrol along the road which rescued him and took him back to the city.
Today Emile is 60 and lives in France, where he has kept his “salvation’s vehicle” as a precious relic.
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