Orera

On Reunion Island, you will find the Cirque de Mafate, a volcanic depression surrounded by high rock walls, which is hidden in the heart of the National Park and can only be reached on foot, on a long trail, or by helicopter. One of the villages of the natural site is called Aurère - meaning "good land" - and is populated by a small farming community descended from the Maroons (the slaves who escaped from the French colonizers). In a unique dimension of rural life, nature sets its own pace and the people adapt to it naturally. What emerges is thus the tale of the past-present relationship, the story of a hard-won freedom, now endangered by the threat to the climate that seems to carry with it the echoes of a past in which hopes and anger merge.