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In 1950 in full reconstruction the workers of Brest went on strike It will last more than a month and will be bloody Edouard Mazé a 26yearold worker from Brest will die during the demonstration on April 17 dozens of his comrades will be injured and one of them Pierre Cauzien will be amputated five days later The city is under siege René Vautier a 20yearold filmmaker goes clandestinely to Brest at the call of the CGT to shoot a film on the reasons for anger The trace of these events is now tenuous and carried by witnesses whose words are gradually dying out This film proposes to find the traces of these events to collect the words of the witnesses to search their personal archives to exhume the forgotten photograms to open the official files hitherto protected to delve into the depths of individual memories to understand In 1950 a man died But who still remembers