Paris, 21 December 1997: around fifty families moved into a vacant 5,000-square-metre office building at 61 rue d'Avron, empty for three years, an action local communist officials said forcefully recalled the plight of thousands of families denied the right to housing. Six years later, about ten families still lived there, and this book portrays the building and its last occupants, waiting each day since 1997 to be rehoused and fearing eviction at any moment, with hidden portraits and respected privacy inviting the reader past the building's dilapidated facade to meet its inhabitants.