In the backstreets of Calcutta | France 5 | Les Métiers de l'Impossible

In Calcutta, the most densely populated city in the eastern part of India, we follow the daily nightmare of some of its inhabitants who have no choice but to undertake the most thankless and dangerous of jobs. India is also the Eden of snakes: more than 150 species live across the vastness of its territory. Among them, the most common¾but also the most dangerous¾is the cobra. In the suburbs of Calcutta we accompany Ali, snake charmer and hunter. Jharia, a ghost village” in the Meghalaya district doesn’t exist, officially… It sits at the foot of the Kusunda coal mine. Every day, an endless line of trucks arrives to load their precious merchandise. At once a host of tiny hands falls upon their cargo.”