Métis, les enfants cachés de la colonisation

During Belgian colonisation of the Congo, Rwanda and Burundi, mixed-race children born to a Belgian father and an African mother were torn from their families and deliberately isolated by the State in special boarding schools. Thousands of them were victims of this segregation during the period of Belgian rule, thus illustrating one of the facets of the colonial violence perpetrated in this region. On the eve of independence, some were even forced into exile and permanently separated from their mothers, their culture and their roots. They were moved to Belgium and adopted into foster families. This documentary portrays the poignant testimonies of six of these people, delving into their painful quest for identity and truth.