Khadija Leclère : 2012
The Bag of Flour
Alsemberg, December 1975. Eight-year-old Sarah lives in a Catholic foster home. One day, her biological father, whom she has never met, comes to take her for a weekend in Paris. But it is in Morocco that Sarah wakes up to the call to prayer, in a little town lost in the foothills of the Atlas. Very soon, her father leaves, abandoning her without any discussion or explanation. She does not even know the language of the country, nor those people who present themselves as her family. Resigned, she slips into the life of a little girl where the only schooling she is offered is that of knitting. Time passes and Sarah, now 17, has became a Moroccan girl like any other, or nearly so. She has learned Arabic and appears to be fully assimilated. But her one desire is to leave, to find her lost Belgian childhood, her school and her books, and what she imagines is a life of freedom. Now she will fight for the right to choose her own life and not suffer one that has been chosen for her.
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