Yves Espargilière

Francis Farge, alias "The American" could have remained a man like the others but a strange obsession animates him: he feels American body and soul.

The father of a family of North African immigrants living on a Paris housing estate finds it hard to impose his will on his two teenage daughters. Lya, 17, and Chirine, 18, respond to their father’s bouts of violence by rebelling in the same way as most French adolescents. When Chirine is offered work as a model, she jumps at the chance, but soon realizes she may be about to fall into the prostitution racket...

A young man goes on a road trip with an old lady he saves from a hospital.

March 2002, during an election campaign, Simon Barrachet, offensive journalist, took over the newspaper and a television station seeks to impose its vision of information. His team is going through a period of profound change, while the themes of the 2002 campaign invade every screen: the absence of electoral issue in the first round, and the supposed explosion of insecurity in France ...