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'Mujeron', the 'big woman' in Spanish, used to be a professional boxer and is now a transsexual prostitute living in Paris. He returns to his country, Ecuador, after spending six years selling his body in France to support his family back home.

In the Jordan Rift Valley, men have been at war for more than a half century. This human tragedy has led to an unprecedented ecological tragedy, causing the death of almost all migratory birds that used this crossing between Europe and Africa. Against all odds and despite the persistent turmoil in this region, Israelis have taken action to save biodiversity. Today, these men and women are fighting to protect the birds and are successfully restoring the flyway of the great migration in the valley, one of the most wonderful natural events in the world.

Paris. In a small side street, seconds away from the Place the Clichy, two dirty and dingy hotels face one another. Behind their facades, the lives of marginal transsexuals from Ecuador take place. They all work as prostitutes in the Bois de Boulogne. Among them, we meet "Mujeron", (the "Big Woman", in Spanish), a former boxer who chose prostitution and a solitary life in order to survive and help his family back home. We also meet the exuberant and ironic "Romina", who seems to have made her dreams come true thanks to prostitution: a woman's body, a housewife's routine, a small flat and some money. Two parallel existences that are apparently poles apart but will in fact unite in one tragic ending. Both light-hearted and tragic, switching from flirtatiousness to misery, from optimism to fatalism, the story of Romina and Mia balances between joyful complicity and solitary distress.

Twice a week, the public writer Mamadou Ba has a permanent office in a Montreuil neighborhood house where he meets immigrants who have come for help. Whether it is a father looking for more decent housing, a laid-off worker or an undocumented immigrant, the list of requests is long. Through these exchanges, Mamadou sees his job as a mission of mutual assistance with his immigrant brothers and sisters in their administrative procedures.