Ciompi

At the end of the Middle Ages in Florence Italy a revolt of the poorest textile workers the Ciompi upsets the city and succeeds in overthrowing the government In Florence I film in their footsteps to bring out the ghosts of this revolt In the industrial suburbs I discover the echoes in the present in the modern textile factories where immigrant workers are exploited In Paris I dialogue with the militant researcher who made the history of the revolt Together we question the political stakes of writing history in the construction of a fertile collective memory