In 1933, Henri Storck and Joris Ivens, two among the mostimportant pioneers in documentary film, made a famous documentary called Misery in Borinage. The Borinage is a region located in the south of Belgium. In his film, Storck shows at that time the incredible misery of the coal miners, their children and family, worthy of Germinal by the French writer Emile Zola. 66 years later, Patric Jean, a young filmmaker born in the region, decides for his first documentary to follow in the steps of Storck and to film the same place today. The coal mines are definitely closed, the states of life are even more precarious. The misery has taken a turn for the worse: Storck filmed rebel workers worried about revealing their social condition; Jean films unemployed people with no future, ashamed to speak. The level of education and schooling is weak, only 20% of the people have a job, there is hunger among people and animals. The same social/democrat party has ruled the region for one century. But nowhere are there signs of a real global project to fight the situation. The powerful 'socialist' politicians interviewed in the film express for the best their fatalism, and for the worse, their cynicism. The filmmaker also had to deal with his subjects´ fear of speaking and displeasing those who deliver the social drip for survival.