François Perlier

Milana, Sephora, and Mario are between seventeen and twenty-six years old. They grew up in modest, stigmatized rural Manouche families. Unlike their parents, they have degrees and work as employees. They have dreams to fulfill.

The Soul of Bossales is an immersion in the heart of popular Haitian culture whose spirituality and creativity have been forged by a surge of freedom and identity affirmation. Foukifoura, Édris, Charlotte or Ramoncite, “Bossales” characters with committed artistic and political acts, give us the gripping story of a very harsh reality: material and health precariousness, political violence, neo-colonialism.

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Benedicta is a survivor of human trafficking from Nigeria, Mohamed left Guinea at the age of sixteen in the hope of a less precarious life, and Martha and Anibal fled political repression in Honduras. Fate led them to a small French town and the surrounding countryside, where they are now pursuing the same goal: to find their place in local society. The film tells the story of their daily lives, filled with obstacles and uncertainty, hope and disillusionment, solidarity and small victories.

Martha Desrumaux is a North of France child with a novelistic destiny. « Little maid », then factory worker at nine, she will become, through her revolt and commitment, a pioneer in social right fights between the two world wars. Iconic female character of the Front Populaire, Jean Renoir put her in scene in 1936 in the movie « La vie est à nous ». Instigator of the digger’s struggle against the nazi invaders, she is deported in 1942 and involved into the resistance within Ravensbrück’s camp. In 1945, she is designated for being one of the first woman member of parliament in France history, before to fall in oblivion.