At the end of 2025, Giovanbattista Tusa wrote to Françoise Vergès in one of his Letters to the Unknown. He wrote as Vergès was immersed in making a film about the struggles on Réunion Island and in the intimate work of returning to her parents’ personal archives. The letter revived a brief conversation they had once shared in Paris, where their thoughts converged on the necessity of decolonizing the oceans – not as a distant hope, but as an urgent, collective task unfolding in the present.