In 2016, Oscar-nominated filmmaker Raoul Peck had great impact with his razor-sharp documentary essay on writer James Baldwin. This time, he turns his focus to another crucial but somewhat forgotten activist: photographer Ernest Cole. With his shocking book House of Bondage, Cole showed from the inside what Apartheid meant for black South Africans like himself. The world was shocked. Cole himself had to live the rest of his life in exile in New York and Europe, where he would never feel at home. Raoul Peck recounts his travels, his restlessness as an artist, and his constant anger at the Western world's silence or complicity in the horrors of the Apartheid regime. In the 1980s, Cole fell into oblivion, partly because his negatives seemed to be lost. In 2017, a large part was found again - 60,000 negatives - in the vault of a Swedish bank.