On July 10 1985, in Auckland harbour the French Secret Service bombed the Greenpeace ship the Rainbow Warrior. The daughter (Marelle)of photographer Fernandez Pereira was eight years old when her father was killed. In this documentary we follow Marelle (accompanied by her mother) as she travels through French Polynesia , New Zealand and to France finding out about her father and persuing the truth. Along the way she learns about the struggle of environmentalist in the South Pacific fighting against nuclear testing.
Founder of Greenpeace David McTagget is interviewed and recalls his experiences in 1972 and 1973 when he deliberately tried to sail his yacht into the exclusion zone to protest against the French atmospheric nuclear testing.Two Mururoa residents talk to about their experiences of the nuclear testings on themselves, their family and the environment. Includes archival footage of nuclear testing.
Fernandez Pereira last assignment for Greenpeace was to record the evacuation of Rongla Atoll in the Marshall Islands. In the 1950’s American atmospheric testing had contaminated the atoll and its people, moving the people was the first task of the Rainbow Warrior’s 1985 voyage.
Marelle also talks to David Lange about the politics that surrounded the charging of the French Secret Agents and their subsequent release after serving only three years of their sentence. In France, attempts to speak with Politicians or people involved with the Rainbow Warrior bombing are met with silences and closed doors.