Toumaï, enquiry on our origins

July 2002, in the Djourab desert of North Chad. Culminating more than twenty years of work, Michel Brunet, director of the French-Chadian Paleoanthropological Mission (MPFT) announces the discovery of our oldest human ancestor recorded to date. The creature, better known as Toumaï, is seven million years old and has just "crash-landed" in the world of the living. The entire history of humankind is thrown into question...