Without preparation, and carrying only a backpack and a camera, the documentary filmmaker Laurent Hasse hiked from the French Pyrenees to the coast of northern France. Unplanned and openhearted encounters with his compatriots begin with the question: “What’s your definition of happiness?”

What does happiness mean to you? The documentarist Laurent Hasse takes this perennial existential question to the road, where on a hike from the French Pyrenees to the coast of northern France, he encounters a range of attitudes to pleasure and joy. We need more of that right now.