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It's the summer solstice weekend, and 150,000 people have descended on a farm in the northeast of England for an open-air music festival. Reporting on the event is journalist Zoe Meadows, who files her copy from a food van run by her friends Sam and Lisa. When some of Sam's customers get sick, it looks like food poisoning, and it's exacerbated by the mud, rain and inadequate sanitary facilities. It's assumed to be a 24-hour thing until people get home and discover strange skin lesions, which ulcerate and turn septic. More people start getting ill - and dying.

The body of Polynices, Antigone's brother, has been ordered to remain unburied by Creon, the new king of Thebes. Antigone defies the law, sealing her fate. Originally produced in Paris during the Nazi occupation, Anouilh's Antigone was seen by the French as theatre resistance and by Germans as an affirmation of authority.

Mis en scène par Isabelle Starkier, réalisé par Jean-Max Peteau, "Résister c'est exister" rend hommage aux héros anonymes qui se sont opposés à la politique de collaboration menée par le Maréchal Pétain. Une vingtaine de personnages, incarnés par François Bourcier, se succèdent pour nous faire revivre ces actes de résistance populaire.