Self-portrait preparing our new documentary.

From the depths of the Amazon river, a vast region of jungle that contains the world's largest tropical forest, to a small Belgian town called Wieze. From the small canoes used by native peoples to trade between South and Central America, when the place had neither that name nor the borders that delimit it now, to the large vessels that currently connect the commerce between Africa and Europe. From pristine beaches to ports in overcrowded cities. From the great Mayan temples and their protective gods of the harvests to their small graves and offerings. From the first sip of this liquid food thousands of years ago in a region of Mexico, to the small bite to a 32 x 32 x 3 mm square of chocolate in a tasting. From the 20-meter-tall wild cacao trees scattered throughout the Amazonia, to the small cuttings in the nurseries in French Guyana.

Through the awakening of all our senses, taste, sight, touch, smell and hearing, when a sample of chocolate melts in our mouth. To guess from what country it comes, in what ground it has grown, what its genetical branch is, how many slow hours it has fermented. To discover its place of origin, the heat, the rain and the insects that have accompanied it, the trees that have provided shade for it, the decomposing matter that has helped it grow. To be silent in that laboratory in Vic where we are and to listen to the farmers' fingers hitting the cacao berry to find out its ripeness point, to hear its sound and to see its color. To imagine that we are in a more intimate place that speaks about all this.

Hand in hand with farmers, anthropologists, historians, biologists, chemists, engineers, agronomists, geneticists, tasters and chefs we undertake a documentary project with which over the next two years we will travel through geography, history and the character of the cacao fruit itself. Produced by Cacao Barry, and through interviews with people from the five continents closely linked to cacao, it will speak about the aroma, particularities and anecdotes of a fruit bound for more than 3,500 years to the history of mankind.