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The film is set in Nigerian Sahel in the present day, in a world one had thought long dead and buried: archaic slavery.Two women have several things in common: their slave origins, their negritude and the audacity of having obtained their own freedom. They find support from the Timidria Association to confront their former masters. Boulboulou is demanding compensation for 18 years of servitude; Tumajet wants her teenage daughter, who is still a slave. Following the trail of nomads in Tuareg country, this film takes us on a quest for justice into the heart of a contemporary feudal society. This immersion in the world of slavery reveals the complex relationships between masters and slaves and their unimaginable reality.

France - 2001 - 1 h 29 mn - Betacam Digital - Colour

Réalisation Bernard Debord Image Dominique Alizé Son André Rigaut, Jean-Pierre Bordiau Montage Sylvie Bourget

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