Philippe Miller he is responsible to maintain it

It is called pique prune. It is a scarab protected by European standards, which some environmentalists groups made their banner to stop the construction of highways across in France. In fact, in this region of the North, earthwork arrested net. Small operator specialized in looting of construction material, Philippe Miller stops along this highway draft and began, as usual, to browse. Both and so the rumour goes to run across the country: an engineer of the great society of MGB is in place, the construction will resume!

In this disaster zone where patterns have seen their orders to collapse and workers have been unemployed, this simple spark ignited the fuse of hope. It unfolds more. Philippe Miller, he is responsible to maintain it. Without hesitation, he agreed to take the clothes that others have carved for him. The suit is much too large but it is putting it with aplomb. And it works... Even if the operator does not have any competence in public works, and it is at the first glance. Even though suffice a wire to the construction company he falsified documents to the unmasking. But everyone wants to believe in the revival of the highway to all dreams, until the young mayor of the village, the troubling Stéphanie (Emmanuelle Devos). Before an amazed Miller, local entrepreneurs are the dance of the belly. The scammer who dreamed not both is proposing envelopes "in the black" to select local businesses.

From a true story

In his mind, things are clear: he will pick up a maximum of commissions before spinning in the English. In the meantime, it signs contracts in turn arm with transport companies, earthmoving, or computer, hiring without count in the region, receives encouragement of the population and marked children drawings "thanks boss". At the time of rogue patterns, this rogue become boss unleashed the enthusiasm. Little by little, before the wave of hope that he has raised, Miller will take to the game. While a pharaonic site invents his eyes, he is involved in its history to the point of believing for good. Despite unpaid that accumulate in the eyes of all, despite the deluges of rain on the region multiplying the risks of accidents at work.

From a true story, Xavier Giannoli ("when I was singing") succeeded in inventing a utopian world where poetry is generally not courses: on a site of highway. He succeeded mainly in embark us on this adventure, improbable as it seems. Thanks to the passion that animates it, and who hosted him for years where he has brought this story in her. Thanks to the energy that he has in the shooting, which was some nightmare moments. Thanks, finally, to interpret everything in fineness of François Cluzet, who find the words to communicate with others, will invent a formal gesture: build a ghostly highway in the middle of nowhere.

Worn by the faith of a humiliated population that places its hopes in him, the shabby operator will develop into distressed sublime artistic. In a last scene anthology, seen planting the flag of his bogus company on a hill overlooking the site, as Geronimo until the blue coats for a final battle. Ironically, below, the first cars along the highway are the cars of the policemen who came stop.