Dark Paths

Dominique Manotti

Set against the backdrop of the seedy districts of Paris this mystery unfolds alongside actual events of a 1980s garment workers' struggle. In the neighborhood of Le Sentier where sweatshops turn out the haute couture of the well-heeled foreign workers keep inhuman hours under repressive management and the constant threat of police brutality. When a young Thai worker is found dead in a factory and an erotic video club's membership is threatened with exposure investigators are lead into the immigrant slums the heroin trade and a morally ambiguous world of informers prostitutes and laborers.>