Through her memories, Aïssata, a Zambian native, retraces the journeys and changes in her own life, the deceptions, the arranged marriage, the stories of the people in her extended family, what it means to go from a girl to a woman in a macho and polygynous world sustained by tradition, where the voice of women, and especially young women, does not count.
The theatre of this battle is the female body through which social reproduction, both material and physical as well as cultural, is enacted. We are faced with a picture that is not easy to understand, but which arouses empathy and places the Senegalese diaspora in the international African context marked by important cultural differences. A central role is occupied by school education, a real opportunity that can lead women to emancipation and empowerment.