Vietnam-sur-Lot

In 1956, more than a thousand French people from Indochina, repatriated after the defeat of the colonial power, were installed in a camp in Sainte-Livrade-sur-Lot. This reception camp was supposed to be temporary, but it dragged on until it recreated a “Little Vietnam”.

Alix’s mother grew up in this camp and she takes her children there every summer. When the place was threatened with dismantling in 2010, she devoted herself entirely to its memory and that of its inhabitants. At first indifferent, Alix ends up becoming interested in the history of the camp and, more broadly, that of her family and the refugees from the Indochina War.