Between 2022 and 2024 Cailleau and Russell shot the film DIRECT ACTION on the ZAD at Notre-Dame-des-Landes. Where the film draws a contemplative portrait of that radical place, the book works as a counterpoint: it is built on the accounts of the people in the film, handing them back the floor, and what comes out is a complicated web of ties between a territory, individual lives, the collective and the fight.