Frankreich - Das Postschiff zum Ende der Welt

"If you come to Ouessant, you will see your blood. If you come to Molène, you will see your sorrow," says a Breton proverb. Captain Michel Stephan is not fazed by the heavy seas around these two French islands, which have sent many a ship to the bottom of the sea. With his crew he is on the way on the mail ship Enez Eussa in the treacherous Atlantic to supply the isolated rocky islands with everything necessary for life. And he does this every day, because the islanders depend on his ship! The film accompanied Captain Stephan's crew on their daily dangerous trip. Actually, the French mail ship Enez Eussa should have been decommissioned long ago. But no robust replacement was found for the tough daily routine on the Atlantic. That is why the ship continues to supply Molène and Ouessant, the small islands off the coast of Brittany, day after day. When the winter hurricanes sweep across the Atlantic, the Enez Eussa is one of the few ships that can set sail. Even then, the ferry still brings cargo, passengers and mail from the mainland to the islands. In doing so, it must always pass through the notorious "Passage de Fromveur". For safety reasons, the strongest lighthouses in Europe are located here. Halfway the Enez Eussa passes the rock of Men Tensel with the famous lighthouse Kéréon. At the westernmost point of Ouessant, the lighthouse of Créac'h shows the ships the way. A total of six lighthouses are needed to secure shipping traffic off this dangerous coast. The small islands that lie there in the far west of France are among the wildest and most pristine places in the country. On the rugged rocks, the inhabitants live mainly from fishing and, during the summer months, from tourism. The Bretons call the area "Penn Ar Bed" - the end of the world. The group of numerous uninhabited islets around Ouessant and Molène has been declared a Natural Area of Special Protection by UNESCO. Captain Michel Stephan has been sailing the island route for years. He was born on Ouessant and would like to have a cottage on one of the islands again one day. However, not for permanent residence. For that, he prefers the nearest city on the French mainland, Brest, with its urban, modern climate. That is also where the home port of the Enez Eussa is located. But whenever Stephan has a longing for the rugged, jagged cliffs of Molène, he goes to the islands with his wife and their two children.