They remained silent their whole lives. But now, in the so-called autumn of their years, Léa, Noëlle, Monique, Simone and Marie-José have decided to break that silence and take Belgium to court for the crimes committed against them by the state during the colonial era in Congo. All five are of mixed heritage, born to black mothers and white fathers. Between the ages of two and five, they were taken from their mothers and placed in orphanages—solely because of their mixed background. Before the Court of Appeal, they seek official recognition of a policy of systematic abduction. Between legal pleadings, the women revisit memories of their stolen childhoods, while animated sequences evoke what it meant to be of mixed descent in colonial times and how they endured a crime that must now be publicly acknowledged.