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30 years ago, Dubai was still a desert. Today, it is a megalopolis of three million inhabitants with extraordinary constructions. A city where we build ever bigger, ever higher, in search of records. Located in the heart of the Persian Gulf, this city of excess attracted 14 million visitors last year. Isabelle, Éric and their two children are going to spend a week's dream vacation there, far from the cold and grayness of Paris.

00:00 30 years ago, Dubai was still a desert
5:07 City without tax
11:46 Unlimited shopping for this Iranian banker's wife
17:45 Louboutin shoe at 1000 euros
23:32 Swimming in the aquarium with sharks
28:17 Burj Khalifa
37:45 Billionaire family
43:54 Golf country weddings are lavish
53:36 The Avener (DJ Tristan Casara)
58:07 Bulgarian billionaire in night club
1:02:24 Couscous Royal
1:04:35 The richest kid in Dubai
1:22:37 A 5,000,000 euro wedding
1:28:27 The beach

Year-round sunshine and high salaries attract many French expatriates. They are 25,000 to have settled there. Like Vincent Reffet, who is about to achieve a feat there. The triple skydiving world champion will fly over the forest of skyscrapers at more than 300 km/h, equipped with a wing made up of four mini-reactors.

Taha Boudhib lives as close as possible to wealthy local families. This Franco-Tunisian is the favorite pastry chef of the Emirati. At the head of about thirty people, he works in a complex belonging to the royal family.

Emmanuelle and Alexandra are interested in the wardrobe of the richest women in Dubai. They have created a luxury dressing room that is a hit. What started as a small event among friends has become a thriving start-up.

City of all excesses, Dubai has also become in a few years the party capital of the Middle East. At only 27 years old, Clément runs one of the most popular nightclubs in the city: the Billionaire - where an ultra-wealthy clientele, Arab princes and rich expatriates, come every weekend to spend fortunes.

And the delusions of grandeur are not ready to stop. The new generation of Emiratis has grown up in a world of luxury where their purchasing power has no limit: luxury cars, private zoos with wild animals, extraordinary real estate complexes...

Immersion with the French who live in this universe of extraordinary luxury.

Directed by: Sylvain Lepetit

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