Nous aurions pu être des héros

In the year 2020, all untapped minerals in the bowels of the earth were diluted and transformed into poisonous gases by the Aqua Regia Storm. Expelled through every open pit mine on the planet, the gas leak killed around eighty percent of the world population in less than a month.

Fifty years later, in what was once Northern Quebec, the New Abitibi Independent Communities Confederacy (NAICC) faces, together with many communities around the world, the challenge of building a new global system.

Before the dilution, the village of Agbogbloshie, a former wetland in Accra, Ghana, was home to one of the world’s largest e-waste dumping sites. Filled with tons of technological garbage, it became the center of the new world: its highly tech-skilled population now travels globally, sharing knowledge and trying to keep the world connected.