It's spring 2021 and to date France has recorded the most cases of Covid-19 in all of Europe – including non-EU countries – and the third-highest death toll after Italy and the UK. It's now more than one year since President Emmanuel Macron first told French people to stay home and that he would do "whatever it takes" to keep people's businesses and livelihoods going.
As the first anniversary of the initial lockdown passes, FRANCE 24's Europe team travels around the country – the second-biggest in the EU by both population and the size of its economy – asking ordinary people and politicians how the pandemic has impacted France both in the short term and for its future.
We meet young people struggling to eat and pay rent after unemployment rose sharply in 2020.
We also go inside a vaccination centre to see how the rollout is going after a slow start and widespread hesitancy.
And we take a look outside of France, at its relations with one of Europe's most strategic neighbours: Turkey. This amid a turbulent relationship between the two countries' presidents.
>> Click here to watch part one of the show
Show presented by Catherine Nicholson, produced by Johan Bodin and Mathilde Bénézet, filmed on location by Stéphane Bodenne, with Luke Brown and Céline Schmitt.
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