The feature-maker Mehdi Ahoudig plunges the listener into the lives of drug addicts in the French countryside. Moving between young women struggling to loosen the grip of heroin on their lives and the people employed to help treat them, arrest them and monitor them.

Winner of the Prix Europa for Best Radio Documentary in 2015.

Mehdi Ahoudig is an author, sound director and filmmaker. He creates soundtracks for theatre and dance companies and teaches radio documentary. A regular contributor to ARTE Radio, he has won the Prix Europa three times.

English translation by Simon John.