For some, end-of-year festivities have been reduced to a bare minimum. This is the case for many homeless people whom we sometimes pass in the street without paying them any attention. Behind each of them, there is a story, a life journey often strewn with pitfalls. Meeting with this young man in his thirties. He had a job and accommodation in a home for young workers and ended up sleeping on the streets. He is suffering from a serious, very debilitating illness.