This documentary tracks the course of history through archive and Hergés stories of Tintin.

Hergé reacted to the momentous events of the world he read about in the newspapers or heard on the radio by incorporating them into Tintin’s stories.

He became the chronicler of his times through his comic adventurer.

At first the young Catholic boy scout illustrates Le Boy Scout but soon he is taken into the confines of the priest, Father Wallez and his Catholic Journal for young people, Le Petit Vingtieme.

The Soviet Union and its denial of religion is something up for criticism by Wallez and he steers Hergé to make a cartoon story of this almost unknown arena.
Tintin in ‘The Land of The Soviets’ is remarkably close to the realities of Soviet Russia after the Bolshevic Revolution.

Once more the young Hergé is directed to send Tintin off on a Belgian Missionary inspired adventure to the Belgian Congo.

It is only with Tintin In America that Hergé enters into his own expedition into an unknown world.

With archive, re-enactment and interviews with a newspaper editor, a documentary maker, a DJ and radio presenter we chart Hergés story and how the stories he wrote reflected how much had changed over time. Since he remained so popular for such a long period, the fact that his comics reflected the general mood of the European population in the 30's would come back to bite him when public opinions changed so much after WWII.

We discover Hergé is a man who started off writing silly and naive little cartoon strips but the extraordinary events which happened around him as well as his own personal relationships led him to develop a timeless classic that connects with people the world over.