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In 1961, France established its space-center in Kourou, French Guiana, expropriating local Guianese. Field investigation meets archival video to empower a silenced population.

Melrick is an unruly young boy who spends his summer in French Guiana at his grandmother's house to escape his turbulent daily life in Stains, France. At the end of his stay, he plays the drum to revive the memory of his late uncle, Lucas Diomar, who died in tragic circumstances. Despite a wave of murders of young men shaking the headlines, Melrick becomes aware of his place in a family destroyed by irreparable grief.

Nou Voix is an autobiographical video departing from the participation of Maxime’s father, as a Guyanese figurant in the movie Jean Galmot aventurier (1990), which deals with the history of French Guiana. By re-enacting a part of the film, Maxime and his father try to amplify other kinds of voices.

Within the revelry of Rio's Carnival, Ilma writes to her son. How does she sense his presence in the crowd?

Author of "Sunny Karukera, stranded Guadeloupe" (1980), Elzéa De Aventurin indulges, in 2017, in a series of interviews with her granddaughter. Together they trace, not without malice, a family history, sailing from one end of the black Atlantic to the other. A story for lack of silences, pride and revolt.