The last "black king", Mobutu Sese Seko was the oldest and most resolute of African despots.
A machiavellian monark, very often portrayed as diabolical, the president of Zaire was one of the last dictators born out of the cold war and out of the end of colonialism.

     He came to power in the 1965 coup d'état and imposed peace by means of violence, fear, and repression. In thirty years of dictatorship, he accumulated titles such as "Leader of the Revolution", "The Unifier", "The Pacifier" or "Father of the Country".

     With secret services and "promoters" from Europe and from America, he built up a pyramid of despotic, predatory power, fortified by corruption and reigned alone in a country devastated by poverty. In 1997, deposed by rebels, he went into exile and died of cancer mid neglect and indifference in Morrocco some months later. The documentary is a result of over two years of research on files, with the witness of persons close to Mobutu in the heart of Africa, in Europe, and in the United States. One hundred and four hours of material selected include thirty hours of unpublished files.

     Images and witnesses explain how the son of a cook and sergeant in a colonialist army became the richest man in the world. Or by what logic, he built up his power in Zaire, a territory rich in ores and precious stones that, by contradiction is, in the world today, one of the poorest.