André Schorochoff describes the life of his father Pierre who emigrated from Russia in 1923, graduated from Saint Luc in Brussels and began his career as a land surveyor in the Belgian Congo, at the age of 21. He shares with us the memories of a teen years old boy arriving in 1947 in Isangi a small village on the Congo river. In the latter part he exposes his opinions about the Belgian colonization policies and realizations. Testimony recorded in 2006.