The Valley

High in the French Alps, on the border between Italy and France, African migrants fleeing war, poverty and political persecution risk their lives crossing dangerous mountain routes. Witnessing the increasing influx of refugees, local communities in the Roya and Durance Valleys start providing them with shelter, food and legal counselling. But providing assistance to undocumented migrants is a criminal offence, and the charitable actions of those citizen groups have put them on the wrong side of the law.