Director : Bernie Bonvoisin
Actors : Thierry Frémont, Patrick Bouchitey, Nadia Farès, Marie Trintignant, Victor Lanoux, Élie Semoun, Fabienne Babe, José Garcia, Martin Lamotte, Yann Collette, Bernie Bonvoisin
Feature film
Genres : Fiction
Production language : French
Nationality : 100% French
French release : 1/8/97
Runtime : 1h 57mn
Current status : Released
Associate production company : Clara Films
Co-production : M6 Films, SDP Films
French distribution : Polygram
Film export/Foreign Sales : StudioCanal

Despite a "nomadic" past, the Jacob family has settled in a house on a waste-lot on the fringe of a big city. The father, mother and their five children - four sons and a daughter - live off deals and minor swindles, stealing scrap metal and melting it down. Their closest neighbours, Italian immigrants, live in a similar manner, except that they avoid frequenting people from the outside. The outside is a housing project where numerous families consider the "house dwellers" as chicken thieves. Aggression stays on a verbal level.

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