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Under the sun, in the blue sea, inside the luxury cruise ship there is a group of bottom cabin workers who cannot see the sea. They are the "bottom" scenery of today's cruise tourism industry and even the mass tourism industry, which is poorly hidden by capitalism. This is a world forgotten by tourists and literature. One morning, Slimane Khader decided to work on a luxury cruise ship cruising the Caribbean. He left the high-risk neighborhood in the suburbs of Paris and went straight to Miami. But what awaited him was not clear water, young sand, and towering palms. In this maritime city that carries 8,000 people, 6,000 people are tourists who can see the sea, and 2,000 people are modern slaves below the deck who do not see the light of day, hired to meet the needs of the upper cabins. Chinese people often live in the kitchen, the laundry room is the place of Indians, Mauritians serve dishes, and the cleaners are all Mexican-Americans. Slimane, a French young man of Algerian origin, is even more outstanding: he is the "jack of all trades" who is called upon to put out fires everywhere. Wherever there is a shortage of people, he will go. He's done it all, and now, he tells it all, lifting the fig leaf of mass tourism's underbelly landscape. The significance of this book is not just documentary, it is also a literary act. Slimane Kader uses his lively language and barbed humor to present us with a black comedy that profoundly exposes the reality of the times.