Hired in the Montsou mines, Étienne Lantier meets the Maheu family and falls in love with their daughter Catherine. She is courted by Chaval, a brutal worker. When the Compagnie des Mines lowered wages, Étienne, already outraged by this misery, rose up. Dreaming of justice, he pushes for a strike. Weeks go by, the starving strikers struggle, but, victims of violent repression, resign themselves to returning to work.
Elenco: Solenn Mazon , Luba Dépret , Jacques Schuler , Julien Lesage , Damien Olivier , Sandrine Châtelain , Pascal Duclermortier , Tiphaine Gioira , Lou Valentini , Willy Claeyssens , Nastassia Girard , Quentin Barbosa , Bruno Tuchszer , Guillaume Arnault , Marie Polet , Éric Paul , Renaud Merviel , Rémy Gence , Iman Amara-Korba , Antoine Billaut , Amélia Lacquemant , Marilou Aussilloux , Marie-Pierre Feringue , Henri Botte , Olivier Bayart , Louis Peres , David-Alexandre Berthier , Amaël Pamlard , Sebastien Colaert , Jonas Bloquet , Max Baissette de Malglaive , Stefano Cassetti , Jérôme Keen , Anna Mihalcea , Vincent Deniard , Aliocha Schneider , Steve Tientcheu , Steve Driesen , Thomas Baelde , Sami Bouajila , Valéria Cavalli , Natacha Lindinger , Thierry Godard , Jean-Marie Frin , Guillaume de Tonquédec , Alix Poisson , Michel Masiero , Julien Lilti , Anne Conti , Pascal Goethals , Raphaël Thiéry , Éric Herson-Macarel , Sâm Mirhosseini , Rose-Marie Perreault , Charles Lelaure , Arnaud Lechien , Jack Claudany , Simon Ferrante .