An unflinching history of French Mayotte and a portrait of the colonial present that still presides there.

Everything about this island screams "colony": the White ghettos, the racial hierarchization at work and in daily life, economic dependence on France, the infrastructure breakdowns recent water shortages have brought to light... Between Mahorais who deny their past to be "French at any cost" and seem to be sliding ever farther to the political Right, "métro" urbanites who act like they own the place and stick to their own, and Comorians become foreigners through deliberate state policies, the violence in Mayotte stems from a double process of dislocation and colonization.