• Director(s):

    BUBLEX (JEAN PASCAL), BAH (Hammady Chérif)

  • Producer(s):

    ARTE GEIE

  • Territories:

    Worldwide.

  • Production year:

    2022

  • Language(s):

    German, English, French

  • Rights:

    TV, DVD, NON-THEATRICAL, INTERNET, VOD

Among the African migrants who arrive illegally in France, more than half come from Guinea, from Mamou, the epicenter of illegal emigration in this West African country.  

Every year, more than 10,000 young people leave this small town to emigrate to Europe. Barely half of them reach their destination, the others return home, willy-nilly.
In Guinea, they are called "returnees".
After several months of slavery, abuse, and sometimes rape, the returnees, broke and traumatized, return to their country where another ordeal awaits them: rejection by their families and society.
But this is without taking into account their resilience.  The "returnees", these young people who left clandestinely for a better world, gather together, strengthened by a solidarity linked to their common experience. They all dream, hope and fight relentlessly for their country's development.