
Deadly Roads: Bolivia, Ivory Coast and Georgia
Three journeys, three kinds of danger. In Bolivia, drivers navigate the old road out of La Paz, where cliffside gravel tracks and sudden fog have killed thousands and earned the route the nickname Death Road. In Ivory Coast, the film follows truckers hauling cargo through Abidjan's chaotic traffic and the country's crumbling rural highways, where potholes, overloaded vehicles, and poor lighting turn every trip into a gamble. In Georgia, the route through the Caucasus Mountains brings hairpin turns, avalanches, and drivers who treat the road's dangers as routine. Camera crews ride along with truckers, bus drivers, and locals who depend on these roads for their livelihoods, capturing their accounts of near-misses and the funerals of those who did not survive. Narration lays out what makes each stretch so lethal, from engineering failures to weather to sheer traffic volume, while the footage lingers on the wrecks, memorials, and makeshift roadside shrines that mark the human cost. It is a portrait of infrastructure as a daily risk rather than a convenience.