Production
France.tv Studio
Direction
Leslie Gwinner
Description
In Camargue. During construction work, workers unearth human bones. The investigation is entrusted to Commissioner Marianne Prévost, a specialist in this type of case, assisted by the young and inexperienced Lola Hardon. It is quickly established that the skeletons did not die at the same time but were buried at least 70 years ago and are all, except one, of Asian origin. Among the Indochinese workers requisitioned after the defeat of June 1940, 2,000 of them ended up in the Camargue, where they worked in very difficult living conditions. What landowner at the time could have been so inconsiderate towards his workers as to bury them without a proper burial? How can they be identified? And who is the Caucasian woman buried among them? Who stole her body from the morgue? What terrible secret from the past were they trying to erase?
What we did
Research into archival documents attesting to the presence of Indochinese workers in southern France in the 1940s.
