1759, Mauritius Island, Indian Ocean. The island is controlled by French settlers and the deported slave population live in fear while toiling in the sugar cane plantations. Unlike her disillusioned father Massamba, 16-year-old Mati refuses to keep her head down and accept her fate. One night she flees from the plantation, hoping to escape violence and seek freedom in a remote part of the island, where a community of fugitives is said to live. As the plantation owner hires the merciless slave hunter Madame La Victoire and her sons to pursue Mati, Massamba realises the brutal consequences awaiting his daughter if she’s captured. He has no choice but to break his chains and set off on a desperate search for her. As a relentless hunt ensues in the island’s unforgiving jungle, the father and daughter forever break away from the colonial order.
Ibrahima Mbaye
as Massamba
Anna Thiandoum
as Mati
Camille Cottin
as Madame La Victoire
Benoît Magimel
as Eugène Larcenet
Bass Dhem
as Barbe Blanche
Félix Lefebvre
as Honoré Larcenet
Swala Emati
as Mame Nguesso
Vassili Schneider
as Baptiste
Bamar Kane
as Gaoussou
Lancelot Courcieras
as Joseph
Lazare Minoungou
as Rado
Marc Barbé
as René Magon de La Villebague
