1 00:00:01,200 --> 00:00:03,720 This is 17 avenue des Minguettes. 2 00:00:04,040 --> 00:00:08,480 Built in 1964, this 12-storey tower has never been renovated. 3 00:00:09,000 --> 00:00:14,560 Considered purely functionalist and soulless, it is nevertheless an extraordinary building. 4 00:00:14,560 --> 00:00:16,280 Let me introduce it to you. 5 00:00:16,560 --> 00:00:18,560 On the ground floor is Georges' grocery store. 6 00:00:18,560 --> 00:00:19,840 My vegetables are fresh! 7 00:00:20,520 --> 00:00:26,680 After resisting as well as possible the supermarkets, it is now finding success thanks to local production. 8 00:00:33,280 --> 00:00:35,480 On the 3rd floor lives Caroline. 9 00:00:35,480 --> 00:00:40,800 Her excessive passion for cacti is hardly appreciated by Panosse and Bernard, her two cats. 10 00:00:59,720 --> 00:01:01,920 On the 8th floor is Monique's den. 11 00:01:01,920 --> 00:01:05,720 She first inhabitants of the tower and has never left it. 12 00:01:06,720 --> 00:01:11,200 Since the death of her husband, she has dedicated her love to tropical plants. 13 00:01:28,000 --> 00:01:31,800 On the 12th and top floor of the tower is Martin's apartment. 14 00:01:32,640 --> 00:01:39,080 His enthusiasm for the vegetable garden is exalted, to the point where pots and seedlings have taken possession of his home. 15 00:01:40,320 --> 00:01:43,640 You are certainly wondering why this building is so extraordinary? 16 00:01:43,640 --> 00:01:46,720 In order to answer this question, you need to have a look at the roof. 17 00:01:49,200 --> 00:01:53,920 Cacti, tropical plants, lemons, mangoes and other exotic fruits and vegetables 18 00:01:53,920 --> 00:01:57,600 grow in the greenhouses set up by the inhabitants on the roof. 19 00:01:58,000 --> 00:02:03,160 This 13th floor is their own place of interaction and sharing which makes this tower so unique. 20 00:02:04,440 --> 00:02:07,920 And you, when are you building your 13th floor?