Children from Raïs, survivors of the August 97 massacre, gathered in a large room in their village around the creation of large collective frescoes (4m x 2m).

 

The camera captures the different stages of this creation with their comments, their reactions and their reflections on what they draw and paint. Evocation of the night of horror and projection into the future through the eyes of traumatized children.

 

The cases whose situation and story are the most poignant are followed outside the fresco, in their environment and their daily experience with what remains to them as  parents. They revisit with us for the first time, the places where they experienced the massacre, generally their old houses which they no longer live in and which are often occupied by the military. 

 

Their rare words spoken or sung, their unbearable silence in the face of questions  which awaken their pain, and their smiles despite everything, combine with the strength of their paintings to deliver the traces of their painful memory, the rest of their childhood dreams and to express their need to survive. 

 

Will these men of tomorrow be able to forget one day?