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In France, 8.6 million people live below the poverty line. When one survives on less than 950 euros a month, it does not take much to hit the street. Who are these new SDF that look less and less to the traditional image of the homeless, dirty and more or less consumed with alcohol? The social distress seized them in a life hitherto tidy with home and family. They are often on the street for less than a year and put everything they have energy to stay well dressed. Some even continue to work. Pascal is 46 years old, he sleeps for six months in his car, in the parking lots of the city of Toulouse. Divorced, this temporary worker on construction sites now lives outside. Pascal is one of those invisible resembling Mr. everyone and who conceal their life hassle. He manages to look good in front of his employer. Frederick, a former executive in the restaurant is on the street for a month. Victim of the crisis, unemployment, sleeping Austerlitz station in a bicycle garage. He also fights to keep his dignity and find a roof. In Paris, we have also followed the policemen BAPSA a brigade specialized in helping the homeless. Tunnels, emergency exits, disused railways: they take us in inaccessible places where these new homeless hiding. Among them, Jeremiah 26 years. For two years, he lives in an unusual place in private, inside a quay of the Seine. Faced with these new troubles also appear new forms of solidarity. In recent months, citizens are organizing to help these new excluded, feed them and sometimes even house them.
Directed by Jacques-Olivier and Adrien Benesse Rappoport
Mounting Julien Mesquite