an uncompromising portrait of Corsica in the 1980s and 1990s

This article comes from Figaro Magazine

What a great idea. Twenty years old, as beautiful as the island she lives on, gifted in photography, Antonia falls in love with a boy with silent charisma.

What a bad idea. This one is a nationalist activist who leaves little room in his heart for any other feeling than the Corsican cause. We are at the beginning of the 1980s, the nights are blue, the village festivals are full of anti-French songs and shots in the air, continental residents are threatened, molested, attacked, arrests are multiplying.

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What to do? Her father, her temperament as a modern young woman, free and tired of waiting for her man to come out of prison, the loving gaze of a childhood friend and, more discreetly, her uncle a priest and the boss of Corsica-Morning for whom she works try to reason with her: life is also elsewhere! Her friends, her feelings, her refusal to have her destiny dictated suggest that she go through with this adventure. Who…