Synopsis
This film tells the story of a young woman’s return to her homeland, Cameroon, and the reunion with her mother, centered around revisiting spaces that have shaped both their lives. Their different journeys intersect around the traditions that form their identities. The film is a face-to-face encounter that confronts and questions the choices of these two women. It portrays two generations observing each other, but more importantly, two women exchanging thoughts on intimacy, suffering, and their desires as women.
A word from Tënk
Through a narrative that is both poetic and reflective, the filmmaker first takes us on a nighttime journey along a path, symbolizing a luminous return to her homeland after years in Europe. She then turns the camera towards her mother, and through a profoundly beautiful dialogue, Rosine Mbakam establishes the closeness and love between the two women, while also revealing the distances that separate them. In this personal film project, where the collective resonates, the filmmaker revisits her memories and the collective memory of her mother, her family, and more broadly, their community, in a sensitive tribute to Cameroonian women. Additionally, through encounters, stories, filmed locations, and her current reflections, she consolidates and renews her family and cultural roots, the true foundation of her identity, which she wishes to pass on to her son.
Hubert Sabino-Brunette
Programmer and teacher
