New Caledonia, early 1900s.
In the vast shadow of the Great War in Europe, in a land ruled by the Code de l’Indigénat, the last Kanak uprising was brewing. In 1917, it would shake the regions of Koné and Hienghène, spreading panic across the country.
Conspiracies, betrayals, manhunts, massacres, and brutal repression, the hidden and little-known story of the last Kanak revolt is a whirlwind that crystallized the remnants of colonization. From the history of the Feillet settlers to that of the great Kanak chiefs fighting for their freedom, from the blindness of an administration overwhelmed by rebellion to the struggle for justice, ‘The Final Revolt’ is a docu-drama that seeks to shed light on a dark abyss in New Caledonia’s colonial past.