Let's give the plastic sandal the place it deserves in the pantheon of humanity's footwear! For although no one has forgotten the ordeal they put us through every summer, who among us knows their true history? Who has ever thought about the extraordinary destiny of this plastic pearl invented by accident? Who remembers that it went through exile, hardship and war? Who knows that it embodied an ideal of society and the promise of a better world? Who could have imagined that she would turn one by one the greatest pages of the history of the 20th century until she became the icon of a whole people!

A film by Florian Vallée selected for the Festival Vues d'Afrique 2021.