"Coming for a Visit" provides an inside view of the historical fight of migrants usually referred to as "clandestines". Although they don't have documents, Mohammed, Diallo, Hamed and others have been working and paying taxes in France for years, employed in food service, cleaning service or in the construction industry. In 2009, with 6000 "sans papier", they go on strike, campaigning for their legitimisation.

They invest all their energies in this fight; now that their status as illegal immigrants has been disclosed, there is no way back. Supported by the unions, over some months they get from their employers what before seemed impossible.

"Coming for a Visit" is a story about exploitation, threats and contradictions. It tells of the blend of courage, desperation, conflict and team spirit shown by these "sans papier" who have learned to fight while fighting.

Lucie Tourette, born in 1979, is a specialist in photography. Her interest for this form of art and her passion for social themes have led her to journalism. She has been writing for the "Bayard Presse" since 2003 and she's active in the environment and youth sectors. She studied the "sans papiers" phenomenon together with four sociologists: Pierre Barron, Anne Bory, Sébastien Chauvin and Nicolas Jounin, with whom she published in 2011 "On bosse ici, on reste ici ! La grève des sans-papiers : une aventure inédite". This provided her the opportunity to document the fight of "Coming for a Visit".