A village is cursed, women blamed, and a daughter seeks justice in this Burkinabe agitprop against oppressive patriarchy.
When Pougbila is raped and refuses to tell her mother by whom, her father despatches her to an arbitrary suitor before she becomes spoiled goods. When villagers start dying from meningitis, superstitious elders order a witch-hunt. Pougbila's mother is branded a witch and banished. Problems solved.
Pougbila can't stand suffering under this toxic cloud of deceit and male prejudice. Her journey to reclaim her mother faithfully chronicles rituals, traditions and skewed morality masquerading as custom. But it is in Ouagadougou's refuges for outcast women that we witness the all-too-real destructive scourge of man's inhumanity to woman. And for Pougbila, enough is already too much. It's time to break the silence.
Starring:
Blandine Yameogo, Claire Ilboudo, Celestin Zongo, Abdoulaye Komboudri, Daniel Kabore
