From 1889 to the present - 130 years of shared history. This
three-part documentary film weaves together many archives and
new testimonies to tell us about contemporary French black
history over 130 years. This film gives a voice to both the
protagonists and the heirs of this history and relays the
building of a French Black identity. An old history, a presence
which becomes visible with the 1889 World's Fair. A story
illustrated with archive footage which goes through two World
wars, the colonial period, the Independencies, and the time of
the migrations from the West Indies and Africa, but also from
the Indian Ocean, New Caledonia, and from the African American
influence since the Interwar period.