Ben Viatte was born in a cozy Switzerland setting and lovingly tended by a loving family. It seemed he had everything… yet something was missing. Something about the deeper questions that nothing from the outside world could hope to answer: birth, old age, love, loss of loved ones, ego, impermanence, lasting happiness, death...

At his 24th year a dream shook his being, in which these questions were dramatically brought to the surface. After lying in the dark on a stone floor, the troubling void was interrupted by a barefoot monk walking calmly, peace in every step, headed eastwards...
Ben assumed the message was clear enough, and the next morning he started packing his things to undertake a journey on foot to the Indian Himalayas. He ended up crossing eighteen countries and reaching his destination Dharamshala 4 years later, after a 14'000 kilometer walk of which he relished every moment....