White Material

In the African heat, one woman stands alone

A tense, morally ambiguous portrait of a woman's stubborn refusal to abandon her colonial legacy as civil war closes in around her.

In the midst of a volatile regime change in a Francophone African state, Maria Vial is fighting to sustain her family’s coffee plantation. With rebels and the army struggling for control, French peacekeeping forces move out, warning the remaining white residents that they’re on their own. But Maria refuses to be driven off the land, even as tragedy looms.