During a year, from Marseille to Charleroi, Bruay to Geneva, through rundown suburbs and factories, the filmmaker investigated the damage caused by failing industries.
A young, longhaired man tells us about his future, a midwife, eyes downcast, recalls her past. In a demolished factory, a man talks about his birth. A young African woman sings “I will live a dream when I return” to her younger brother… just some of the stories we’re invited to share.