In 1979, Valérie Valère, a 16-year-old writer, testifies to the violence of her hospitalization for anorexia at the age of 13 described in her book "Le pavillon des enfants fous". She considers her illness to be a call to others unlike suicide.

Student biologists at the University of Aix Marseille designed a bed bug trap. They use bedbug pheromones to lure them into the trap.The fungus "Beauveria bassianas" that is in the trap infects them and when the bugs go back to their congeners, they contaminate them in turn. It then takes between 7 and 14 days to eradicate a colony. The students are working to shorten the duration of treatment. For this they have launched a participatory prize pool.

Twice a week, the NGO "Médecins du Monde" goes to a vacant lot in the Parisian suburbs where a hundred Romanians have lived for four years. Without water or sanitation and in the cold, the first victims are children. During consultations, doctors make the same observation: pathologies arise from living conditions. The role of volunteer doctors is to treat but also to help these families in the administrative procedures to obtain care, including the AME (State Medical Aid). Testimony of a young Roma woman and two doctors.

At the maternity hospital in Reims, meeting with young mothers explaining their difficult psychological moments after the birth of the baby. This state of postpartum depression is far from rare since it affects about 10 to 15% of women. Testimony of Rachel POTONIE, mother of 3 children, including Noé, 5 days ("When we go home and find ourselves alone with the baby, we sometimes have upheavals of sorrow..."), Ouarda DAVID, midwife at the University Hospital of Reims, and Cécile LACOUR, mother of 2 children, including Victor, 12 days ("I had a baby, I should have been happy, happy, when I wasn’t necessarily...").

At the Lunéville maternity ward, testimony from Manuel Ferrer, midwife supervisor (‘In her mind, a woman may not be ready to be a mother’), from Sylvie Guyot, mother of Hugo, 6 days old (‘Like all women, I had a little breakdown after the birth’), and from Hélène Hournau, psychologist (‘Being a mother is not a given, maternal instinct does not exist,’ she claims).

Joëlle Lellouche, president of the association "Le défi de Fortunée", which fights against childhood cancers, talks about her commitment, the "February White" information campaign, as well as the goals and achievements of her association.

At night, in the middle of summer, a telephone operator takes calls for "SOS Médecins" and sends the request to a doctor who goes to the patient. He evokes, while driving in the streets of Paris, the heterogeneous interventions that he made: "We go everywhere... We still see houses without electricity or water... We can go from the villa of an emir to a hotel in Pigalle..."

Sidewalk of passers-by on what they think of tuberculosis, and interview with a professor of medicine: "Tuberculosis is still very common in certain classes of the population and certain age groups... And unfortunately it is not known that pulmonary tuberculosis is essentially a contagious disease..."

Testimony of a "ghost", Jean-Paul DUC, 46 years old, who was declared dead, following a heart attack in his garden, before his heart began to beat again... Like others before him, he testifies to what he saw, what he felt, heard.. His companion, Lina LATTANZIO, confirms that the SAMU doctor who was there had no hope... Jean-Luc DUC speaks of a light that calls him: "This light that attracts you, calls you, and you leave serenely..."

A mother, Fatia, testifies on the set, with her husband, Christian, of the postpartum depression (still called "baby blues" at the time) of which she was victim, after the birth of her baby and the week of euphoria which followed, once the return home and the confrontation with the reality of everyday life: "We had read a little about the subject, we thought that it would not happen to us, and it happened to us..." (illustrations by some images of babies in a nursery).

The first television program, Tous contre le Sida, raised funds for research and associations fighting against AIDS; selected excerpts from this evening. Testimony of a high school student living in Haute-Marne who explains the difficulty for young people living in the provinces, in small villages, to buy preservatives, with the eyes of others, from the pharmacist. Interviews with Muriel ROBIN, Elton JOHN who talks about the disparity of relatives, and finally Line RENAUD who "my dream is that there is no show next year".

Rehearsal at the Zenith of the show "Tous contre le sida" broadcast tonight by the 7 national channels. Interviews with Frédéric Mitterrand and Christophe Dechavanne who will be the masters of ceremonies, then Pierre Bergé, vice-president of Arcat Sida, wishes "that this show will change mentalities (...) I prefer the word passion to the word compassion."