Les Arrivants

Caroline and Colette are social workers. All day long, they meet families who are seeking asylum in France to assist them with the process. Every day there are new arrivals, from the four corners of the world, by charter plane or by covered truck. How can they deal with the overwhelming flood tide of all this distress, of all these needs? Caroline is young, impulsive and irascible. Colette, older, is compassionate and disorganized. Opposite them, the “arrivals”, exhausted, wounded but obstinate – exasperating at times, moving at others. The film relates this tense and explosive confrontation in which each defends his or her own role.