Pauline, a Tutsi, was thirteen when the Rwandan genocide broke out in 1994.
 The country is set ablaze. Everywhere, Tutsis are hunted down and murdered. To have a chance of escaping the killers, Pauline's family decides to disperse. Before separating, the mother takes her daughter aside and recommends that she pass herself off as Hutu: she is too young to have an ethnic identity card and her physique is difficult to identify. The device will operate several times. For three months, Pauline, lost in the heart of barbarism, will witness incredible massacres, but she will manage to escape her tormentors.
 The war ends with the death of more than 800,000 Tutsis. A precarious calm returns. Pauline finds her father and, after a forced exile in Zaire, returns to her native village. As for his mother, brothers and sisters, no one knows what happened to them.
 Pauline does not lose the hope of finding them alive, but at the same time, she wants to regain her footing in life: to forget the genocide and to get out of it ... She immerses herself headlong into her studies, and she succeeds. brilliantly. But that is not enough to free himself from his miserable condition in ravaged Rwanda.
 She wants to go live in the West. She then returns to her lie: since France has supported the Hutus, she will ask, as a Hutu, for political asylum from the French administration. And she succeeds.
 But what has become of his? Time is passing. One evening, his father calls him and tells him the terrible reality: he has found the remains of the murdered family members. It is now a matter of offering them a funeral, but as a political refugee, Pauline cannot return home. She then undertakes a new fight to obtain French naturalization which will allow her to return to Rwanda to bury her family with dignity.
 This testimony, which plunges us into the heart of horror, is at the same time an overwhelming lesson in life.