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- Madagascar, nowadays. Kwame, 20, struggles to make a living in the clandestine sapphire mines. An unexpected event takes him back to his hometown. As he reunites with his mother and old friends, he finds himself confronted with the rampant corruption plaguing his country. He will have to choose between easy money and loyalty, between individualism and political awakening.
- In Reunion Island, green casuarinas are swept by trade winds. We skim the black sandy earth until we reach the center and come upon a stage, a "ron," where poets succeed one another to deliver their "fonnkers" and perpetuate the Creole language. Their bodies vibrate, their feet stomp the basaltic soil to invoke the secret tale. The poem thus becomes the ritual for an identity quest. Tonight is kabar night "Ôté fonnkézer. Rant dann ron, detak la lang, demay lo kèr!" (Oh Poet. Walk on stage, free your tongue, untangle your heart!) The texts of these poems have urged us to resist for the past forty years. Could their panting souls be whispering the possibility of resilience to our ears?
- Jean-René is a retired workman who has lived in Mâcon, France, since emigrating from Reunion Island at the age of 17. His journey is interspersed with enigmatic dreams and pains that are rooted in the wounds of the French colonial past.
- A politically active, white-skinned Creole woman bears the wounds of a tragic event that happened in Reunion Island. At night, she engages in acts of poetic vandalism in her fight to free the Indian Ocean island from French dominion. But her son, a police officer, disapproves of her ideological struggle.
- Two security guards are watching over the beautiful cars parked in the underground parking lot of an office building. The place is deserted, and the night draws out. To while away the hours, they talk about their beliefs, their wounds, their dreams. The youngest security guard, Vincent, is convinced that the gorgeous young woman whom he accompanies to her car every evening is madly in love with him. But fantasies come with a price, especially in an empty parking lot where dreams and reality clash.
- There was Rick Bass the writer, Robyn King the civil rights activist, and Scott Daily who aspired to become a writer; this is their story. It is also the story of a territory covered in snow six months of the year, a wild and remote territory: the Yaak Valley in Montana. It is the tale of the three protagonists' encounter with it, as one falls in love.
- On Reunion Island, away from prying eyes, lives a family of cane cutters with Malagasy, African and Indian roots. Ten-year-old Anélia lives there with her relatives, and among them her grandmother, who communicates with their ancestors. At nightfall, while the children are playing hide and seek in the forest, a stray dog appears at the time when stray souls like to spread. The dog turns into a bird, Anélia thinks of her father who died before his time, while her grandmother organizes a great ceremony to honor the dead..
- It happens today, in Saint-Benoît, on Reunion Island. Lenny, a Creole boy, meets Katyla, a girl from Mayotte. They are both 14-15 years old. Lenny and Katyla or the birth of a romance.