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00:00 Mafat is a completely different lifestyle.
00:02 You either come on foot or by helicopter.
00:03 At least here you don't have the metro system, work, sleep.
00:08 It's really not my thing.
00:10 It would be better to leave a little bit here.
00:12 I dive quickly into the bottom of the bottle.
00:15 Maloia, Maloia, Maloia is the kingdom.
00:20 If you didn't grow up here, it's very difficult to stay here.
00:24 If I want a McDo, I have an hour and a half of walking and three hours of driving.
00:28 It's a completely different lifestyle.
00:30 There are no cars, you either come on foot or by helicopter.
00:34 The races are on the back.
00:36 We don't want to go on the road because that's what makes our circus so charming.
00:41 And that's why the tourists are so fond of Mafat.
00:45 Here we are at my father's house.
00:54 A small, quiet garden.
00:58 We have a few banana trees.
01:01 We already have a nice little regime.
01:03 We don't buy bananas, we don't buy thyme, parsley,
01:07 mandarin, lemons.
01:09 It's already a big economy.
01:12 In Paris, I don't think so.
01:13 I'm not sure you have a basil or a little bit of parsley in the kitchen.
01:18 I don't have a banana tree at home.
01:22 Since you were a child, you learned to grow.
01:25 I learned from my father too.
01:26 Because if I lived in the bay, in an apartment,
01:29 I would have known Calloff with Warzone and Fortnight.
01:34 But you still play Calloff and Fortnight.
01:36 Calloff, yes, on the phone.
01:38 Well, here, anyway, we don't have Wi-Fi, we only have 4G, so that's already good.
01:42 Who are the first to have lived in Mafat?
01:51 It's the slaves.
01:52 The slaves who were their masters, the big whites, the colonists.
01:56 They took refuge in Mafat.
01:58 The name Mafat is the name of a slave.
02:01 The first slave who came here.
02:04 But when you take your car, you go down,
02:09 you start to be a slave of everything.
02:11 You have the gas, you have the rent, you have everything that says...
02:17 That's it, it's another way of life.
02:21 The first to have lived in Mafat?
02:28 Do you work here?
02:30 No, I'm unemployed.
02:32 It's been about three months.
02:34 Here, it will be my future house, maybe one day.
02:44 With a nice view of the coast, the sea too.
02:50 And here, my little 20 square meter pot.
02:55 I made it all by myself, yes, all by myself.
02:59 In three months, it was done anyway.
03:01 Well, it's still quite expensive with all the transport and all that.
03:05 How much does it cost?
03:06 25,000.
03:07 The days at the moment, since I'm unemployed, I don't do much.
03:11 Maybe a little gardening and then we wait for the aperitif to go for a drink.
03:16 What time is the aperitif?
03:18 If we have 3,000 a day, a glass of wood, from noon it can go.
03:24 Or else it's around 9.30, 10 o'clock.
03:28 In the morning?
03:29 Yes, in the morning.
03:30 And you start drinking?
03:31 Yes.
03:32 Do you feel like you're an alcoholic?
03:34 Well, it's not even a question of asking if I'm an alcoholic or not.
03:39 I am, I am anyway.
03:43 [Birds chirping]
03:48 So, economically, it's mainly tourism.
03:51 The proof is that we have about 10 visits here.
03:55 In La Nouvelle, we are about 160, 180.
03:59 Since there is no college here, we have to go to Salazie.
04:03 We are at 2 o'clock.
04:05 We are right here, in La Nouvelle.
04:08 Here, in the Mafatte Circus, here is Salazie and here is Sillaus.
04:14 We are right in the middle.
04:17 Do you have a girlfriend?
04:19 No, I'm single.
04:21 Living here, yes, the tourists who come.
04:24 But otherwise, no.
04:26 You have to go to the coast, holidays, all that.
04:30 Frankly, to know what I would really like,
04:34 I would like to leave La Réunion and return to France.
04:39 Because it was still good there.
04:44 For me, because I was in a small, quiet village.
04:48 I stayed there for a year and a half, in the field,
04:51 in the plastic and food industries.
04:54 And I really enjoyed the way of life there.
04:57 Already at the level of the pay, it changes anyway.
05:01 And the food, the food is also much cheaper than here.
05:05 There I already have a house to build.
05:08 So maybe do it before and then leave.
05:13 It's been almost two years since I came back.
05:22 Because before I worked on the coast, in the basins of the island.
05:27 I came back because it suits me better.
05:31 At least here you don't have the metro system, work, sleep.
05:37 It's really not my thing.
05:40 It would be better to leave a little bit here,
05:53 go to another environment.
05:56 And start to reduce alcohol, or even stop.
06:00 Because you get into it quickly.
06:05 You dive quickly into the bottom of the bottle.
06:08 Of course.
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06:13 [Music]