Paris in the spring of 1980. Thousands of Turkish immigrants begin a strike and fight for their legalization. The critic Tobias Gohlis was impressed by Manotti's documentary accuracy, which "has turned history into vibrant life, a veritable successor to Balzac or Eugène Sue. Language, plot, characters – everything is right, breathes, loves, fights: from the gay commissioner who lovingly exploits the dependency of the handsome illegal spokesperson, through the backroom milieu of illegal workshops, without which there would be no Parisian prêt-à-porter, to the Iranian-Turkish-French-American drug, arms, and human trafficking."