International Competition

They come every day from Azerbaijan, Mongolia, Sri Lanka, Somalia, Congo, Eritrea. The whole families come, with or without luggage, with or without passports; they arrive with charter flights, by buses, by ships. Among them there are pregnant women, young couples, old people. They arrive both with fear and hope. The waves of nations that seem as a menace to flood the unusual new Babylon, converge in the middle of Paris, in the organization that helps them to orientate and survive. And right there, at the ‘gates of heaven’, for many of them, the two ‘angels’ stand - Caroline and Colette. With the two of them the story of the clash of cultures, customs and needs starts. This brings many of them to tears and despair, and some others to bliss and happiness. But this is also the story of ‘angels’ who do not have anyone to complain to.