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The Following Days - les jours suivants

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Following a year of debates, the city decides to flatten the remaining half of the contaminated downtown that had not been destroyed yet in the explosion, but which was still soaking in oil. As a farewell, the authorities is opening the exclusion zone for one single day. For the first time in 18 months, Méganticois have free access—for 8 hours—to their downtown before it gets erased.

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