Pour un dollar par jour

Relocating industries are changing world labour map. In France, the garments factory where Marie-France worked has closed. In Bangladesh, Rachida earns a dollar a day making the shirts Marie-France will never make again. She is discovering financial independence and new relations with men in an Islamic country. Marie-France is grappling with the despair of a life with no future. Rachida is emerging into one which holds out hope finaly escaping poverty. The film does not pass judgement on this example of a radical shift in the world's labour arrangements. It merely traces the dramatic clash between two contrasting portraits of women seen in the context of their social, professional and family environments. The conclusion is left to Marie-France. Speaking of Rachida and those like her, she says : "They are being given our work, they are not taking it from us..."