The Human Pyramid

“A work of groundbreaking metafiction” (The New Yorker), Rouch meets with a group of white colonial French students and their black African classmates (all non-actors) in a lycée in Côte d’Ivoire. Inspired by the arrival of a new white classmate (Nadine Ballot), Rouch encourages the students to enact an improvised drama about the realities of interracial relationships, transforming their attitudes towards each other in the process.