The 68-minute movie was shot in 14 countries and features long tracts of visual storytelling over music and natural sound without words, interspersed with interviews with prominent people, including the Dalai Lama, Vandana Shiva, Robert Kennedy Jr., Felipe Fernández-Armesto and Oscar Olivera - among others.

Now an author and lecturer, Bridges tells the story with simplicity and elegance, her words interspersed with newspaper quotations, literary accounts and muted brown-and-white photographs.

Many songs use only a few real words, interspersed among numerous vocables, or non-lexical syllables like ai-ya-yainga.

A litany of soothing words interspersed with "shhh" and coos came too late; the infant shrieked into full wakefulness.

This time there were words interspersed in the humming.

Whitney had sung the same tune for several minutes now, with much the same words interspersed with threats of what his family would do to anyone foolish enough to hold him for ransom.

Some of these Latin texts however contained non-Latin words interspersed with the Latin text.