Christophe Otzenberger

It is the end of the judicial control of Thierry Chartier, 18 years old. He was a virgin in Heuzecourt, a small village in the north of France populated by farmers and retired miners, where his paternal grandmother lived. He earns his living by helping out in the fields, he helps his grandmother, and would like to take over the farm. But, following an incident, he is condemned to seven years of criminal imprisonment, for complicity of murder, Thierry leaves on parole with an English diploma and a tattoo. But above all a guilt forever anchored. It is now up to him to rebuild his life.

It is the end of the judicial control of Thierry Chartier, 18 years old. He was a virgin in Heuzecourt, a small village in the north of France populated by farmers and retired miners, where his paternal grandmother lived. He earns his living by helping out in the fields, he helps his grandmother, and would like to take over the farm. But, following an incident, he is condemned to seven years of criminal imprisonment, for complicity of murder, Thierry leaves on parole with an English diploma and a tattoo. But above all a guilt forever anchored. It is now up to him to rebuild his life.

Twelve short stories about racism in every day life.

Twelve short stories about racism in every day life.

Christophe Otzenberger spent a year running the streets with one question: "How do you live with misery? An angry journey to meet the excluded and what excludes, because apart from the brutal poverty that condemns you to the street, work, indifference and precariousness also generate other forms of misery.

In Clichy, in the Paris region, the RPR is determined to take over a canton that has always been socialist, at any cost, in order to steal the mayor's office in the next municipal elections. We follow militants and leaders in their conquest, discover their weapons and words, their strategies and their doubts.

Loïc, a chestnut seller, has a mistress who wants a baby. Not daring to admit to her that he had the mumps late in life, he finds other excuses. Until the day he meets Claire, an old girlfriend, who has a little boy. Loïc finds the resemblance between the little boy and himself enormous and is convinced that he is his father...