Indochina: Traces of a MotherINDOCHINA: TRACES OF A MOTHER documents a little known chapter in African, Asian and French colonial history and the personal story of Christophe, a Beninese Vietnamese orphan that returns to Vietnam to look for his long lost mother. Between 1946 and 1954, more than 60,000 African soldiers were enlisted by France to fight the Viet Minh during the First Indochina War. Pitted against one another by circumstances, African and Vietnamese fighters came