Welcome to France in 2016, where thousands of people in the Dunkirk refugee camp live in terrible conditions on frozen wasteland, with hardly any basic infrastructure.
Refugees walks across muddy field potted with deep frozen puddles. The occupants are mostly Iraqi Kurds, Syrians and Iranians.
Facilities at the muddy camp are extremely limited, with only two drinking water stations and a couple of dozen mostly chemical toilets.
Tents rest on cardboard and sleeping bags to try to stop them sinking into the quagmire.
Established in 2006, the camp housed a maximum of 80 people until last fall.
Hadi is one years old. VICE News met him as his family arrived in the frozen mud bath of the Dunkirk refugee camp. His father told us they fled their village near Kirkuk, Iraq, after it was attacked by the Islamic State. They are trying to get to the UK to be reunited with relatives in London. They have traveled thousands of miles, with one final border now standing in their way — perhaps the hardest yet.