This documentary shows the reality of asylum seekers and temporary workers in precarious jobs, revealing their vulnerability while exposing our dependence on their services. These people feed us and take care of us at low cost and in difficult conditions. They are struggling to obtain the right to settle here permanently. Why? The film aims to make us aware of the fact that several sectors of our society are dependent on an immigrant labour force deprived of the opportunity to experience the slightest social ascent and living in hopes that their sacrifices will allow their loved ones to live better lives. Are we aware that our comfort rests on the labour of these humans who serve us? Strong backs to work, is that our vision of immigration? In this rigorous investigation Sonia Djelidi and Sarah Champagne meet asylum seekers and temporary migrants like Carole who arrived in Quebec in 2016 as a temporary worker on a farm, Edyn who has been working in a greenhouse with a temporary worker status for 10 years as well as Rodrigo and his family who have applied for asylum. An expiry date on their permits and a hard time accessing permanent migrant status: that is what they all have in common.
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