The “Pieds-noirs” of Algeria, a French story

When Algeria gained independence in 1962 after a bloody conflict, nearly one million Algerian-based French people were forced into exile. Leaving their hometowns, these men, women and children returned «home» to a land few of them recognized and where they were not welcome. Who were they? What was their life like on the other side of the Mediterranean? What conditions did they face when they returned to metropolitan France, and how did they re-integrate into French society, with more or less difficulty? This lm takes us back to the little-known history of Algerian pieds-noirs, through eyewitness accounts from Algerians, historians and those who had returned to France.