Metropole

Having arrived in Paris in 1985 Hector did everything to be like them In a notebook he finds in his flat he crosses out a list of things he should do or pay attention to if he wants to become part of the French elite In a painful dialogue with Martin his alleged son Hector notices himself in Martin a young man full of dreams and ideals that turn out not to be matched by reality Metropole is a film about migration about assimilation about the haunting of ones past It is a film about identity lost assumed false Metropole tells the story of millions of people out there who leave their homes behind in order to find a new one