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Half-brothers who have nothing in common, Joël and Regis are called to their dying father’s beside. All they receive for inheritance is the certificate declaring the freedom granted to their slave ancestors. The document has been passed down through the family from generation to generation. Impervious to its symbolic value, they are punished by a mysterious elderly aunt who takes them back in time, when black people were sold as slaves. —My French Film Festival