Overview

• The drama follows a Guinean delivery cyclist in Paris who must fabricate trauma narratives to satisfy OFPRA’s asylum requirements.
• Abou Sangaré anchors the film with his Cannes-winning performance that grounds its social-realist critique in lived experience.
• Critics highlight Boris Lojkine and Delphine Agut’s empathetic screenplay for illuminating the human cost of France’s immigration bureaucracy.
• Tristan Galand’s blue-toned cinematography and medium-distance framing underscore Souleymane’s isolation and dehumanization.
• Kino Lorber will release the film in U.S. theaters on August 1, bringing its examination of asylum hurdles and gig-economy exploitation to a wider audience.