Gare sans train

This film aims at showing how participants in a social conflict experience it and reply, out of the traditions of their company or society, to the stigmatising injunctions of the mass media and decision makers in the form of antinomic parallels opposing modernisation and old-fashioned attitudes, competivity and corporatism, Europe and decline. The extension of the strike to a great part of all public services and the total paralysis of rail transport and the RATP (Parisian transport services) cannot be reduced to a simple stoppage of the services concerned. They made up a social crisis and were accompanied for the participants by an interrogation about their future and their children's future, about the future part to be played by public services, about social links and the idea of profitability.