Jacques Arnault, head of Sud Secours NGO, is planning a high impact operation: he and his team are going to exfiltrate 300 orphan victims of Chadian civil war and bring them to French adoption applicants. Françoise Dubois, a journalist, is invited to come along with them and handle the media coverage for this operation. Completely immersed in the brutal reality of a country at war, the NGO members start losing their convictions and are faced with the limits of humanitarian intervention.
"I’ve always thought that the first place you learn about democracy is at home. It’s at home and a person’s relationship to their family that makes them a democrat or a dictator. Here, the story is about people giving themselves the right to a family. The characters are preoccupied with their right to a child, as opposed to the rights of the child. And that’s the start of a dictatorial family." (Joachim Lafosse)
Joachim Lafosse
Born in 1975 in Uccle, Belgium. Graduated from the IAD (Institut des arts de diffusion) in Louvain-la-Neuve. In 2006 Lafosse released his third feature, Private Property, which debuted in the competitive section of the Venice Film Festival. His next film, Our Children, competed in the Un Certain Regard section at Cannes in 2012, and his most recent film, After Love, screened in the Directors' Fortnight at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival.