July 1987: Robert Panaud witnesses the closure of the blast furnace at the foot of which he spent his entire working life. This funeral ended 120 years of history. After the ceremony, presided over by his son, a young engineer, he remembers and tells her about his life as a steelworker. It began in 1945 when, at the age of 15, full of hope and confident in his future, he walked through the factory gates for the first time. He wore himself out forty years later with his early retirement after a somewhat accidental working life. Robert's story belongs to everyone. He shares with us his joys, his sufferings, his loves and his disappointments. An ordinary steelworker who loves his job and takes pride in doing it. He also prides himself on belonging to the nobility of a worker fall, of which he is the last representative. In numerous flashbacks, he tells us what he knows about the lives of his father, his grandfather, and his ancestors. All of them were steelworkers. Marcel Panaud (1902-1930). ...