Guadeloupe, a French overseas department in the Caribbean, holds an unwanted record: the highest rates of homicide, robbery and violence against children of any territory in France. This film goes into Pointe-à-Pitre to find out why, following a shopkeeper who has survived eighteen armed robberies and still hesitates to describe what happened to her, and other store owners describing a city centre where insecurity has become routine. Police officers, local organizers and volunteers describe their efforts to push back against a drug trade that has taken hold amid grinding economic hardship. Intellectual figure Édouard Boulogne offers a historical and social account of how the island arrived at this point, tying the violence to deeper questions of colonial legacy and neglect from mainland France. The film moves between street-level testimony and broader analysis, building a picture of a place where daily life is shaped by fear without losing sight of the people working, often with little support, to change it.