Ya, Ly, Stephane, Clement, and Aurora are Hmong. After leaving their Laotian mountains in a hurry to take refuge in camps in Thailand and flee the communist regime, the Hmong were welcomed French Guiana by the French state to populate and cultivate the lands in the west of the region. As soon as they arrived on the tarmac of the Félix Éboué airport in Cayenne one evening in November 1979, a wind of freedom invaded them. At last, after all these years of waiting, they can live their lives and start building something, far from their native land of Laos. 40 years later, how did life take shape in this small village in West Guyana? How did the Hmong get by? And how do they see the future?