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Abdul Karim, a 19-year-old Senegalese tirailleur, writes a letter to his mother in Arabic script she will never decipher. His words vanish into the thunder of the Battle of Verdun, much like the voices of thousands of colonial soldiers summoned to defend a nation that did not claim them as its own. Director Amina Traoré's investigative documentary reconstructs personal histories through unpublished diaries, letters, and audio interview recordings preserved in family archives. From the forests of Champagne to the West African savannah, the narrative follows descendants attempting to decipher the traces left by their forebears. This is not merely a war chronicle but an inquiry into collective amnesia and the price of imperial loyalty, where every recovered photograph becomes an act of resistance against oblivion.