It All Starts Today

The mines have shut, and the town they once fed has been left with unemployment and families who can barely cover the week. Daniel Lefebvre (Philippe Torreton) runs the local elementary school, and he spends his days trying to get social services to answer for the children in his classrooms. Bertrand Tavernier follows him through the offices and the phone calls, with the pupils' hunger and neglect on one side and a system that moves slowly on the other.