Tagline:

In search of their origins Marème (25), Khady (15), Meye (16), Fama (17), Sofia Aicha (12) leave from a suburb of Milan for an initiatory road trip through a Senegal inflamed by protests.

Synopsis:

Marème (25), Fama (17) Khady (16), Meye (16) and Sofia Aicha (12) live with their families on the southern outskirts of Milan. They are bound by a strong friendship and they shared the typical contradictions of Senegalese second generations crushed between religious and social obligations and the aspiration for freedom. Eager to discover Senegal they imagine a journey that it comes true in the summer of 2023. The girls find themselves protagonists of an on the road that day after day become an initiatory journey through an emotional and symbolic cartography of the country. The itinerary changes constantly, the girls revolve around sprawling families, magnets that attract and repel, forcing the group to divide, reunite, get lost in a country crossed by violent protests caused by the arrest of Oumar Sonko, main opponent of the President Macky Sall. The narrator of the journey is Ramatou, an imaginary rab (female spirit linked to the ancestral culture of the Lebu) that will intertwine five family stories of exile and resilience with the destiny of a people in balance between revolution and dictatorship.

Project representatives:

Simona Cella (Director & Producer)
Greta Cavaliere (Director & Producer)