Prostitution is legal in France, but soliciting customers is not. The immediate consequence of the new law against passive soliciting has led to a big concentration of Utility vehicles, serving as accommodation, crowding the streets of the city suburbs. In Lyon prostitutes from Brazil, Portugal, Cameroon, as well as transvestites from Algeria have largely been ousted from their usual haunts in the Perrache station neighborhood. Busy nightlife takes place between the Rhone and Saone rivers. Police controls, intimacy, violence, stories of kidnapping and dawn that arrives too fast.
