"It was 06:57. As I went to pick it up it rang off. It was Mati's father Bojan. I texted him 'is everything ok?' and he immediately rang back." Ten days earlier Marshall had been at the King ...

These artefacts are "royal treasures", an early title card in Mati Diop's documentary Dahomey informs us, that were pilfered from the kingdom of Dahomey by French colonisers in an 1892 invasion.