The 70-year-old French photographer Albert Tueis is preparing an exhibition of his photographic works. Only, he lacks photos that he had taken at the age of 19, while he was a photographer for the French army at the time the war of independence of Morocco, and that were never published. To complete the retrospective of his career, Albert returns to Morocco in search of the negatives he believes to be safely buried in the country. But not everything goes as planned, and the photographer is confronted with the demons of his past...—deletwoa
While arranging a photo exhibition screening of his work in Paris, 70-year-old award-winning French news photographer Albert Tueis realises that something is missing in the exhibition. When he was 19, prior to the declaration of independence to Morocco in 1955, as a young photographer serving with the French Army in the last few days of French colonial rule, he witnessed atrocities committed by his fellow soldiers, not only through his eyes but also through the lens of his camera.Too frightened to do anything with the photos he took, fearing of the possible consequences if it was ever publish, he left it behind. Fifty years later, he returns to Morocco to find the films he had hidden away. Albert's memories, especially of resistance fighter Issa Daoudi and his penetrating accusatory gaze, resurface to haunt him. In order to be at peace, he realized his retrospective exhibition would not be complete without the hidden photo taken fifty years earlier.
