Disarmed veterans, taciturn adolescents or drug addicts live in an invisible territory at the margins of society, at the border between anarchy and illegality, trying to respond to a threat: of being forgotten by political institutions and having their rights as citizens trampled.

Italian auteur Roberto Minervini has forged his own immersive style of hybrid docudrama. Here, he ventures to Louisiana to provide a bifurcated view of Southern white poverty. Through an intimate bond with his subjects The Other Side patiently deciphers some contemporary turns in American politics.