Manotti’s prize-winning book is set firmly and precisely in the Sentier garment district of Paris in 1980, seething with unrest as the predominantly illegal Turkish immigrants seek to gain some kind of legal status within their adopted country. Instrumental in the process is Soleiman, once a male prostitute, now finding a new sense of purpose and identity in organising the first strikes and protests. Then the body of a Thai child prostitute is found in one of the sweatshops. Also operating in the area is the Drugs Squad lead by the educated, efficient and bisexual Inspector Daquin, looking for a “"Turkish trail"” as the first, purer, supplies of Middle Eastern heroin (from Iran, Pakistan and pre-Taliban Afghanistan) hits the Paris streets...