A young woman (Rihane Khalil Alio) finds herself with child, but who the father? She wants an abortion, which, home country of Chad, is forbidden by law.
Her mom (Achouackh Abakar Souleymane), familiar with unwanted pregnancies or the social-pariah status that comes with it, is determined to help her by any means, even at the cost of being exiled from their community.
Filmmaker Mahamat-Saleh Haroun (A Screaming Man) turns this mother-daughter tale into a moral parable. The use of composition, color and mood is sensational.
In the process, he also celebrate the sacred bonds of sisterhood among the women, functioning without sacrificing a sense of outrage at their intolerable conditions.
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