Samuel Luret

“When I was one year old I was already walking. At two, I was eating dirt. At three, my father was in prison. At four, I begged with my sister. At seven, I came to France.” Those are the words of Spartacus, a Roma child who, at 13, has already accumulated the experiences of several lifetimes. He and his sister Cassandre, 10, scrape out a living with an alcoholic, melodramatic father and a mother who begs them to free her from her husband’s tyranny. With the help of an exceptional social worker, they manage to detach themselves from their terrible parents and experience childhood as they never could before.

Dedicated to the particular case of urban violence in the French suburbs, this film captures their origins and consequences, and especially what they tell about our society. Immersion in the city of Hautes Noues in Villiers sur Marne, five years after the events of November 2005.