In the territory of legendary Sioux warrior Sitting Bull, women on an isolated reservation straddling the states of North and South Dakota are slowly raising their voices. The women of Standing Rock have chosen to speak out against rape and domestic abuse, hoping to break the tragic cycle of violence, alcoholism and misery their children face. In a land of big skies and endless horizons, the challenge seems immense. But for these women, helplessness is not an option.

Six miles from Carson City, the capital of a state known for sin, stands the Moonlite Bunny Ranch, one of Nevada’s most famous brothels. It is located in a surreal, deserted-looking small town called Mound House on U.S. Route 50, where sex is the sole attraction. No fewer than four bordellos call it home. The Bunny Ranch, actually an oversize trailer with a fake Victorian front (literally a façade of grandeur) is the town jewel. Made famous by the HBO documentary series Cathouse, the establishment vaunts itself as a sort of Magic Kingdom of erotic thrills: a Disneyland of sex, inhabited by about 30 "hot and sexy" Cinderellas.

Mens et Salvere, Mind and Health. More precisely: "The development of the mind will progress in lockstep with overall health". That’s the motto of the first boarding school for weight loss in the United States, located among orchards at the foot of the Sierras, in Reedley, California, at the heart of an agricultural valley. The slogan summarizes the school’ s ambition: To help kids shed pounds by working their minds as well as their bodies and teach them how to become long-term weight controllers.