Elsa Diringer

A film in which the director captures the beautiful and accurate qualities of reality when building the energetic portrait of a 16-year-old girl immersed in the macho culture of urban suburban south-west France, just a stone’s throw away from the nearby countryside.

Kumba is a young Ivorian mother living alone in Paris with her two children, Adja (7) and Bakary (8 months). One day, she is asked to replace a cleaner friend at short notice. Kumba has to choose between working and caring for her small son. She goes to work, worried sick. Her little boy is left alone at home.