The black hedgehog is a racist confectionery on display in a bakery. This confectionery, denounced by an anti-racist association, brings to the surface a painful story of Afrodescendant people. To overcome the injunction to silence, the film imagines a space where all voices can be heard.

In a country of consensus denying its structural racism, Swiss black women share their most intimate traumas and identity quests and raise their voices.

In the head of meets several Swiss or naturalized Swiss, Black or mixed-race people who evoke a sometimes painful personal experience marked by the violence of words heard on the street corner, condescending attitudes, discrimination at work or racist acts.