Clothing and cosmetic products from recognized brands offered at a lower price of up to 75%! This phenomenon takes place neither in a lowcost store nor via an online platform, but directly on public roads. Faced with the crisis, this parallel trade has spread onto the streets of many French metropolises.
Navigating between small illegal acts and resourcefulness, it sometimes hides structured organizations capable of evading the surveillance of customs services or Social Security. For four months, journalists investigated the origin of the goods and the distribution circuits, focusing particularly on a symbolic sector of this underground market: the Barbés district in Paris.

Directed by Guillaume Dumant.