Au fond du trou

This short film delicately addresses the case of the “Children of Creuse”, a tragic episode in French history: more than 2,000 children from Réunion were taken from their families between 1963 and 1984 to repopulate the French countryside, which was experiencing demographic decline. This forced migration, organized by the French government under Michel Debré, remains one of the darkest chapters in the history of relations between Réunion and metropolitan France. The film takes a poetic and non-miserabilist approach to evoking this collective wound, through the innocent eyes of Monette, who only speaks Creole at the end, revealing her true Réunionese identity.