Homeless : a dog’s life | M6 | 66 minutes

His name is Jacques, he’s 20 years old? and he is on the street. Tonight, for the first time in his life, he’s going to sleep in a shelter for the homeless. It’s a shock. He’s never had anything to do with the homeless, some of whom have the weight of more than 20 years on the streets on their shoulders. But Jacques is not the only young person here. There are fifteen who are under 25. Olivier is 18 and he’s been sleeping here for a month. Having fallen out with his parents, he left the family home. But the homeless are not only to be found in the towns. We have a meeting with a 50 year-old homeless man who lives in a makeshift cabin in the Bois de Vincennes. His name is Francis. We make a macabre discovery: Francis is dead on his couch. We call the emergency services. Four other homeless people are found dead within the space of a week. There’s a flood of publicity. The government reacts. Police and other organisations scour the wood. For five years, the homeless of the Bois de Vincennes have lived in the face of total indifference. We spend a week of total immersion with Régis?50, and having lived in the wood for 5 years?and his friends to understand the hell they live.They live here in hiding, right at the gates of Paris, because they refuse to accept the difficult conditions in the shelters. To understand, we went to the shelters in total immersion. Enrolling, refusal of 115 questionnaire, long public transport, toilets, meals, rooms, tiredness, fear, etc. We ate and slept amongst other homeless people, from the young man of 23 to the couple of 60 year-olds, former farmers, now ruined.