Walton, the District Attorney, yearns to have children. Soon after defending an author on trial for publishing indecent literature, Walton discovers a secret his wife and her socialite friends have been hiding from him.

Born in France to Senegalese parents, Halimata was excised at the age of 5. Her story is that of many other women, who are trying to forge an identity for themselves, between traditional education and a thirst for emancipation. In the first person, the story of a trauma and a reconstruction.