'On Walking on Ice' is a poetic and contemplative travel diary by a German director who set out on a walking trip from Munich to Paris in November 1974. Herzog was convinced that if he reached Paris on time, the gravely ill Lotte Eisner, a film criticism legend he admired, would survive. 'On Walking on Ice' is a documentation of this ritualistic journey that can be read in several ways: as a penetrating reflection on life and death, as meditative sketches of a vanishing European landscape, as a stream of consciousness stirred by the walk, and as a film in prose, reminding us that only on the road do we find peace.