"Not you too! Calais has become a zoo, and I am a ticket seller in this zoo," writes a resident of Calais to Emmanuel Carrère when he arrives in the northern French city in the spring of 2016 to write a report. Once famous for its lace production, Calais is now notorious for its jungle, the largest refugee camp in Europe, which has since been dismantled, symbolizing the failure of politics, the display of empathy devoid of compassion, and a Europe caught in the grip of its own values and interests, but also for the struggle against all of this. No, Carrère does not write about the jungle; instead, he responds with a political report in the form of letters, in which he attempts to understand the residents of Calais, their impoverishment, unemployment, and xenophobia, but also their idealism and the hopes they hold high.