Sugar

During the 3 or 4 months of the sugar harvest, the factory is running at full speed. Time is short, the cane is strewn across the fields, the “richness” – the sugar content of the cane juice that determines the price paid per tonne – evaporates in the sun.

The majority of them are cane growers, and thus are doubly bound by an implacable cycle: grow the cane to run the factory, run the factory to sell the harvest.

When this race finally comes to an end, the seasonal workers are sent back to their small farms, to their second jobs, and the younger ones to the employment agency.

The permanent staff then begin to dismantle the machines piece by piece, to bring them back into working order. It’s a long period of atony, silence and doubt. This period has no other name than “inter-campaign”, as if there really was no other reality than the sugar fever that will overtake them all…