She chose love and vanished. Seven years later, her son finds her on a stranger's street.
Emma, an African woman, falls in love with Andrew, a white male. She loves him so much that she decides to abandon her husband and their two children... Seven years later, one of her sons recognizes his mother on the streets of Rotterdam. She recognizes him too and she thinks back to the last week before she left her husband and children.
Acting
Pascale Poma's silent devastation speaks volumes.
Direction
Toye's unflinching gaze never judges, only witnesses.
Director
Patrice Toye
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Toye, Belgium's first Black woman feature director, explores interracial relationships through a post-colonial lens rarely seen in 1990s European cinema.
The 50-minute runtime was controversial—festival programmers couldn't categorize it between short and feature, limiting its distribution.
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