Le Bouillon d'Awara

There is a place in the world, European by law, situated on the American continent which is experiencing an astonishing adventure in integration : Guiana, a French department in Latin America. For a long time the Guyanese Creole culture has been a kind of pot into which an immigrant would plunge and blend, giving the soup new flavours. Faced with increasing number of migrations over the last twenty years the Guyanese Creoles, who were formerly in a dominant position, now find themselves a minority group among the others. How are they living these changes ? French Guiana is a laboratory for crosscultural understanding, rich in lessons for other places...
In Mana, a small Guyanese town of 1,500 inhabitants, Amerindians, Europeans, Creoles, Black, Browns, Surinamese, Hmongs and Brazilians tell the story of... Awara broth, a kind of stew made from the awara - the fruit of a palm tree commonly found in French Guiana - and prepared by the Creole community on Easter Monday. It is said that anyone who eats this broth that day will never leave Guiana or, should they leave, will inevitably return...