I liked this film because it dared to be different. It was about as far from a "Hollywood-style" film as you can get! The story involves some pretty nasty characters. In particular, a teenage boy and his father. They make money by exploiting illegal immigrants in France--picking up the poor people and housing them in a tenement--all as exorbitant rates. This pair appear to be people without souls as they lie and cheat again and again. However, when one of these illegals accidentally dies, the paths of the two diverge. Dad just wants to dump the body and could care less about the man's widow and young child (wanting to sell her into a life of prostitution), while the boy who witnessed the final words of the dying man promised to look after the family. What, exactly, happened next I'll leave for the viewer. Provided you have a tolerance for movies about realistically seedy people, this is a film worth seeing.
An interesting twist, not taken in the film, would have been if later the boy had found out that his father was not really his biological dad--but the "dad" raised him from infancy after his own real family died while being smuggled into France by him. This could be an interesting path.
An interesting twist, not taken in the film, would have been if later the boy had found out that his father was not really his biological dad--but the "dad" raised him from infancy after his own real family died while being smuggled into France by him. This could be an interesting path.