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About the Film

In 1986, 600 orphans and rural children from Burkina Faso were sent to Cuba with the mission of learning a trade so they could come back and develop their country, which was undergoing a revolution. But after the assassination of Burkinabè President Thomas Sankara in 1987, the liquidation of the revolution by Blaise Compaoré, and the end of the Cold War, how were they to return, to build themselves, to exist? The narrative of this utopia of Red Africa and the epic memories of these children are mixed with archival images, sometimes reddened by the sand, the heat, and the wind, sometimes faded, almost disappearing, thus giving us a glimpse into the reminiscences of their revolutionary youth.
About Géraldine Berger