LA CITÉ DES CORONS

Courrières, 1906. An embedded camera captures the miners and their village in the style of a documentary. It lingers in particular on the Renard family, where father Claude and son Henri tirelessly take turns working in the mines. Then a firedamp explosion strikes, triggering the deadliest mining disaster in European history, and Henri goes missing. The survivors bury their memories in a massive common grave. But for Renée, Henri’s mother, nothing will ever be the same again. She chooses to fight — for the miners, the workers, the Corons.