Michel and Marie-Claire live happily in Marseille, surrounded by their family and friends. When Michel, a union dock worker, is laid off, they plan the trip of a lifetime to Mount Kilimanjaro. But their world is shattered when they are brutally robbed in their own home, and discover that the attack involves one of their own:  a young worker laid-off at the same time as Michel…

Starring the team of Marius et Jeannette (SFFF 2011) 16 yearts later...

Victor Hugo: How good are the poor (Les Pauvres Gens)
Translation by H.W. Alexander

Our neighbor died last night; it must have been
When you were gone. She left two little ones,
So small, so frail—William and Madeline;
The one just lisps, the other scarcely runs.”
The man looked grave, and in the corner cast
His old fur bonnet, wet with rain and sea,
Muttered awhile, and scratched his head,—at last
“We have five children, this makes seven,” said he.
“Already in bad weather we must sleep
Sometimes without our supper. Now! Ah, well—
‘Tis not my fault. These accidents are deep;
It was the good God’s will. I cannot tell
(…)

Go fetch them, wife; they will be frightened sore,
If with the dead alone they waken thus.
That was the mother knocking at our door,
And we must take the children home to us.
“Brother and sister shall they be to ours,
And they will learn to climb my knee at even;
When He shall see these strangers in our bowers,
More fish, more food, will give the God of Heaven.
“I will work harder; I will drink no wine—
Go fetch them. Wherefore dost thou linger, dear?
Not thus were wont to move those feet of thine.”
She drew the curtain, saying, “They are here!

Shown with Groove Your Life by Vincent Burgevin & Franck Lebon.

Q&A with screenwriter Jean-Louis Milesi follows the screening.