At the turn of the eighties, a little after their British and American counterparts, the French discover punk, soon nicknamed “rock alternatif.” Directed by Lionel Boisseau and winner of the 2023 Sacem Award for Best Music Documentary, this film sets aside quarrels over labels to meet the men and women who shook up France’s musical and political landscape, imposing new rules outside the traditional industry circuits.

Through the testimonies of MastO (ex-Bérurier Noir), Loran (ex-Bérurier Noir, now with Les Ramoneurs de Menhirs), Mat Firehair of the Washington Dead Cats, Pat Kebra of Oberkampf, and actress Béatrice Dalle, the film retraces a collective musical and political adventure spanning 1976 to 1989, a scene built as much on rejecting the major labels as on the music itself, with bands like Bérurier Noir launching their own independent imprints instead.

The film received the 2023 Sacem Award for Best Music Documentary.