Digging for Life is a documentary film about a Cameroonian man
who finds himself trapped as a slave digging for diamonds in Angola.
You thought slavery didn’t exist, what if I told you I was a slave?
— Tome Assoue
When Adiang Assuoe Thomas Germain (Tommy) first shared his journey as a slave-survivor with me, I was perplexed. I couldn’t fathom that the person who I had come to call my friend had experienced such a dark path.
Soon after his revelation to me, we decided to make a film together.
— João Queiroga, Director