A new world is coming into being. A scientific revolution is in full swing – a revolution that could profoundly change our future on a daily basis and in many areas. A revolution that is already allowing us to conceive of smaller, lighter, less expensive products; that promises more powerful computers and faster communication, not to mention more effective medical treatments, a cleaner environment, a more pleasant lifestyle… A world that shall develop ever-smaller new materials and components, build new molecules atom-by-atom and assemble them to exploit new phenomena that will only appear on the nanometer's scale.

Matter behaves differently on this scale. Here reign laws of quantum physics that challenge logic and imagination, the laws that let flies cling to ceilings, make lotus leaves waterproof, let computers fit on soup spoons.

Nanotechnology on Google? There are 18-million pages on the subject. Nanotechnologies have arrived. Apple was the first company to make them fashionable with its i-Pod, but nano particles are already ubiquitous: in the Code Duo Intel processors in PC's and Macs, in tennis rackets, golf clubs, cans of paint, anti-streak coatings, waterproof textiles, and even . . . condoms. In all, no fewer than 250 products on the market.

Where did this revolution start? What is nanoscience? How are nanocomponents manufactured? What are they good for? What is the developmental prognosis? What are the scientific, human, social and economic implications? Why and how will nanotechnologies improve our daily life? And what risks and ethical problems do they raise?

We shall find the answers to these questions on a fantastic journey around the world encountering dedicated scientists, including several Nobel Prize winners. We will accompany them as they penetrate the secrets of nature by manipulating matter on a molecular and atomic level.

We will tour the fields of health, energy, industry, communication . . . for there seem to be no limit to the applications of this new technology. Our investigation, a hybrid of the travel documentary and the scientific documentary, will plunge us into the universe of the infinitely small, a universe that promises to transform radically our relationship to the world and beyond, along with the way we see it.