Carrère's incisive gaze rests on Calais and portrays not the so-called Jungle but the city, investigating how the massive arrival of immigration has changed the lives of its inhabitants.
Until the end of 2016, Calais was a recurring place name because of the Jungle, an emigrant camp. Carrère arrived there to write a report with a question: how does the city experience the appearance of the largest shanty town in Europe?
The luxury hotel is in ruins, but the cheap ones are making a killing hosting police officers, the cafes are filled with cool-looking aid workers, journalists and celebrities who come to film and denounce the situation in the Jungle (Cantet, Haneke). .. “Calais has become a zoo,” says a local.