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Dark Waters L’histoire

Robert Bilott est un avocat spécialisé dans la défense des industries chimiques. Interpellé par un paysan, voisin de sa grand-mère, il va découvrir que la campagne idyllique de son enfance est empoisonnée par une usine du puissant groupe chimique DuPont, premier employeur de la région. Afin de faire éclater la vérité sur la pollution mortelle due aux rejets toxiques de l’usine, il va risquer sa carrière, sa famille, et même sa propre vie...

Cincinnati, Ohio 1998: Up-and-coming corporate attorney Robert Bilott, a new partner at a prestigious law firm, is visited by one of his grandmother's neighbors from West Virginia. Angry farmer Wilbur O. Tennant asks him to sue chemical multinational DuPont. His cows, according to the accusation, are being poisoned by a nearby landfill. Such a mandate is actually out of the question for Bilott, because he normally represents corporations. When he drives to remote Parkersburg to see for himself, his mind changes abruptly. The lawyer sees shocking evidence of the poisoning of the cattle with his own eyes: black teeth, huge tumors and terrible deformities. With the backing of his law firm boss