While not fully chronicling the long process of recovering the artifacts, their journey is deeply felt by the people, and watching them highlights the pain of what has been lost to them. History and the self are inherently connected, both informing the other. To confront historical injustice is to confront the often fractured nature of identity, with all the pieces spread across the world, often in the path of war. The people of Benin have only begun long process of redefining who they are in the world now.