One day, when he declares that only experimented teacher should be sent to schools in disadvantaged neighborhoods, François Foucault, himself a teacher in letters in the prestigious Lycée Henri-IV, is overheard by a representative of the Ministry of National Education (France). He is then compelled to leave his posh school in Paris and go to the suburbs, in the “Barbara” High School of Stains, Seine-Saint-Denis, an institution with a bad reputation.