Priority List

1940, Dunkirk. Four hundred thousand people were stranded on the beaches, and 338,000 were rescued. History books record "miracles", but erase one truth—— On the dock, officers were given priority to board the ship, while ordinary infantrymen waited for eleven days; when the French rear troops stormed the dock, they were shot and killed by British military police; the Senegalese riflemen were told that "this ship is not for blacks"; the Indian Sikh soldiers watched batches of officers leaving, and finally understood that they were just abandoned sons of the empire. Forty thousand French troops were captured and twelve thousand colonial soldiers were abandoned. These numbers have never appeared in any reports. "Priority List" restores the logic of class, race and power behind the Dunkirk myth through the perspectives of seven characters. This is not a heroic story. This is a brutal archive of who was saved and who was left behind.