Caramel was born out of the desire to try to understand the different ways of relating to the consumption of substances and their effects. After two years of research, meetings and talks with people and institutions linked to the subject, it has become clear that it is not possible to give an account in a single work of the multiple issues that unfold as we observe the complex world of consumption. At one extreme, the moralistic and stigmatizing gaze marked by the arbitrariness of what is legal and what is not. At the other, the romanticisation of consumption as a reactive option in the face of hegemonic judgement. But what is going on? What is the question? How can one and the same thing be both liberation and prison? A tool of control of the system and an action of anti-system rebellion. It is clear that in cases of problematic consumption, the question is not about the substances, but about the relationship that is established with them. And that this relationship will be determined by the combination of various factors such as class, gender, or the wound caused by trauma. However, when it comes to drugs, stigma often comes immediately. It is easy to blame the forbidden. But as soon as we look at the list of permitted drugs, miraculously the stigma disappears. We are on the side of good. The law of business, like an animal, marking territory. However, when it comes to drugs, the stigma often comes immediately. It is easy to blame the prohibited. But as soon as we look at the list of permitted drugs, miraculously the stigma disappears. We are on the side of good. The law of business, like an animal, marking territory. But what if instead of focusing on the substance, we look at the real danger zone: compulsion? All those actions we do without thinking about whether we feel like it at all, or even knowing that we don't feel like it at all. Where does this docility come from? What causes it? Is it not the capitalist system itself that nourishes, promotes and facilitates the confusion between compulsion and desire? What do you need of what you have? What of what you want? Do you want more? It is in the turning of desire into compulsion that the practice of consumption becomes problematic. Is it not then a question of how to recognise the origin of the compulsive practice in order to deactivate it, instead of prohibiting consumption or stigmatising those who turn to it for relief or amusement? Our wish is for the play to be a question. Neither to silence nor to judge. To try to understand so that we can take care of ourselves and let it be true. – PABLO MESSIEZ I LES IMPUXIBLES