‘Maquilas’ on the border factories in the north of Mexico, in Ciudad Juarez, where hundreds of women have been found hacked to pieces, for the most part workers in the ‘maquilas’. It is a lengthy journey into the inferno
Two genocides: the first perpetrated by Hutu extremists against the Tutsi and moderate Hutu in Rwanda in 1995; the second, in ex-Zaire, is the killing by Tutsi of the Hutu who escaped Rwanda.
“The longed-for upside-down world which haunts the girl’s premature disenchantment is woven through the narrative in a clear and coherent web of symbols" (J.Young - 'Pardo News' Locarno Film Festival)