Edward Snowden, Lawrence Lessig and Birgitta Jónsdóttir, leading figures in the fight for freedom, discuss the future of democracy.
"An Icelandic MP since 2009, Birgitta Jónsdóttir is mobilizing to give power back to the people. American Lawrence "Larry" Lessig, Harvard law professor and pioneer of the free Internet, relentlessly denounces the deleterious influence of money on politics and the collusion of elites, which undermines the public interest. As for his compatriot Edward Snowden, a former CIA and NSA collaborator, he revealed the widespread surveillance of the population and of US allies, and now lives in Russia, where he has obtained a political asylum that is all the more precarious given that relations between the two countries now appear illegible. While Vladimir Putin reigns supreme on the international scene from Moscow, his American counterpart Donald Trump, a pure product of the entertainment industry, is authoritatively installing himself at the helm of the world's leading nuclear power... Will this new page in history signal the end of democracy? Leading figures in a worldwide movement to defend freedoms, these three comrades in arms, who esteem each other and help each other remotely on the Internet, met for the first time in secret in Moscow on Christmas Eve. They allowed Flore Vasseur's cameras to capture this extraordinary conversation, in the course of which essential questions emerge: how can democracy be saved? What is failure? Who writes history?"