In 2008, Sami Benboudaoud discovered the hell of Neuilly-sur-Seine. Ten years later, now that everything is for the best for Sami who brilliantly completes his studies of political science, nothing will go for his cousin Charles of Chazelle.

This is the unlikely story of 21 ministers and prime ministers who have crossed or are crossing the french Fifth Republic today. Twenty-one politicians who, from one day to the next, find themselves at the head of a ministry by the grace of a President of the Republic and his Prime Minister. The formation of the government, conflicts of attribution, reshuffles, rumours of appointments, evictions, casting errors: it is all the capricious backstage of the games of power examined here under the angle of confidence and which sheds light on the prestigious but unknown function of minister. An original and instructive political saga on the reality of those who hold or have held this prestigious position.

An entire five-year period during which the cameras of Olivier Chevillard and Kevin Bertholet followed Arnaud Montebourg as closely as possible, between May 2007 when his career as a public figure was threatened… and May 2012 when he was appointed minister. A rare document, written day by day in the privacy of his work and behind the scenes in the world of our elected officials. Like a road movie of reality, this film, harnessed to the daily life of the political animal, offers exclusive political moments, unpublished images with in particular his trip to the United States for the preparation of the primaries, but also meetings with right-wing and left-wing personalities. Jack Lang, François Bayrou, Laurent Wauquiez, Ségolène Royal, François Hollande, Aurélie Filipetti or even Rachida Dati…. An immersion in politics to discover and understand this corrosive, singular character,

Six weeks of exclusive behind-the-scenes access to Lionel Jospin's 2002 presidential campaign, from the strategy rooms to the night everything collapsed. A gripping inside account of France's most shocking political upset.