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Over the last few years, something has jumped out at me: the ever-younger age of the traffickers. The fact is, I’ve witnessed several savage assaults, and these assaults came from minors. So I became interested in the delinquency of today’s teenagers. I was intrigued by the experiences of these young people, the events they have to deal with and the reasons why they adopt this lifestyle in the first place. These questions led me to notice a young boy in my neighborhood involved in juvenile delinquency, who inspired me to create the main character of my film. Several psychological aspects particularly struck me. I noticed that one of the main motivations of these young people is to impose themselves on the world, all through insensitivity, detachment from their emotions and even violence if necessary. What particularly struck me was their naiveté, their self-destructive behavior and how they’re caught up in a system that’s bound to be fatal. Through this 15-minute short film, I want to show how selfishness and insensitivity can lead a person to a fatal end. Our own total destruction then becomes proof that our sense of invincibility is only an illusion, an appearance, and it is then that we are forced to recognize our vulnerability. So, in my first short film, I decided to deal with this phenomenon of delinquency by adopting a rather different staging from what we’re used to seeing for this kind of theme in France. To complete my adventure, I really cast the boy who inspired me to make this film, and worked with him for months to teach him how to act in front of the camera and give him the confidence to work in a field he’d never been in before. For me, this project wasn’t just a graduation film. I chose wild casting for the chance to get closer to a reality I didn’t know and to give street kids the opportunity to contribute to an artistic project that concerns them and discover their talents.