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I might have to alterate this dramatic title...In any case, the quest continues: What are the stories behind the great number of 750,000 Portuguese residing in France in the 1970s? How those stories, the collective ones, the individual ones, the ones promoted by the government(s), the ones by activists and artists, all participate in producing the "emigrant character", that might eventually return to their homeland?Last week, I finished watching the documentary film Les gens des baraques (1996), by filmmaker Robert Bozzi. Once again, the slums surrounding Paris make for the decor of Bozzi's film. 25 years after having filmed in the slums for the Communist Party, he comes back with a quest: finding the baby of one of the moving images he shot.The baby Bozzo looks for (extracted from the movie)His quest leads him to the apartments and businesses where former baraques' inhabitants live and work. On that note, for the readers interested in the residential mobilities of Portuguese immigrants in France, and since, as we have seen, the slums were not the only housing pattern of these new comers, check out my colleague Margot Delon's work.Back to our discussion!The most interesting part of the movie, in my opinion, is when Bozzi decides to leave Paris and heads towards northern Portugal, where his informants spend their summer holiday. The small villages contrast strongly with the Parisian suburbs: farming, cooking, building houses, and singing along, Bozzi catches everyday scenes, rather than interviews.For those who do not want to know, skip this paragraph! Bozzi finds the mother in one of the villages, and drives all the way to Switzerland where the now grown-up baby works to make a living. Born in Paris suburbs, moved back to the north of Portugal, and an emigrant again, in Switzerland this time. Les gens des baraques is, like José Viera's Gens du Salto, Erika Thomas's Traversées de la Mémoire, Gérald Bloncourt's Pour une vie meilleure... one of the pictural and memorial works I have collected lately, in order to better understand the narratives produced and still currently in production.It is not clear yet if they are clear topics that emerge. Nonetheless, it definitely kindles my curiosity!  &#160;