In Réunion, in the Éperon district, the municipality undertook a vast resorption plan to reduce the amount of substandard housing. The house of my childhood is in danger of being destroyed. It had been granted to my grandparents by their employer, the director of Bourbon sugar mills, an industry left over from the colonial past of the island. This house bears witness to our history, our identity, also our Indian, African and European origins, which many Réunion Islanders share.