“The longed-for upside-down world which haunts the girl’s premature disenchantment is woven through the narrative in a clear and coherent web of symbols" (J.Young - 'Pardo News' Locarno Film Festival)
Two genocides: the first perpetrated by Hutu extremists against the Tutsi and moderate Hutu in Rwanda in 1995; the second, in ex-Zaire, is the killing by Tutsi of the Hutu who escaped Rwanda.
The story of a housewife who, in order not to go mad, commits her pain to four notebooks. It is also the story of her slow but lucid and life-affirming liberation from a marriage that was suffocating her freedom.