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Maria Rostas and her family are from the city of Cluj-Napoca, Romania. It's been ten years that Nicolae, the father of the family, lives in Brussels while his seven children and his wife joined him four years later. Like many Roma in Romania, the Rostas fled the poor living conditions added to a severe discrimination suffered by the "national minority".If during the last five years Maria and her siblings have been going to school with the help of the social help in Belgium, there is a gap between school and home life. The daily becomes a mixture of "Belgian lifestyle » which confronts the Roma traditions.

Fathis is an undertaker’s assistant and has been working in the City of the Dead in Cairo for 15 years. He lives in a room with two tombs with his wife and 2-year-old daughter.The City of the Dead is situated at Cairo’s Arafa necropolis below the Mokattam Hills Southeastern of the capital of Egypt. Considered as a slum that stretches 6km, we can find in the City of the dead tombs and mausoleum structures where an estimated half million people have their homes. A part of the residents live there to be near the ancestors, but most of them were forced to move from Central Cairo due to urbanization pressures and the cost of life. Others are coming from the rural areas, seeking for job and cheapest place to stay in Cairo. After more than 3 decades under the Mubarak era and a lack of sanitation and services, people from the slums were hoping for better life conditions under the new Presidency and constitution. However, since the Revolution, cost of life has increased, there is a shortage of petrol and gas that make the way of life even more difficult than before. This story is about the struggle and...