ليلى سعادنة

A land of one's own

In Vierzon, a former small French working class town hit by industrial decline, I went to meet women living and working in the working class neighborhoods, those who remind me of my cousins, my Algerian aunts. Warda and Feyrouz are involved in their neighborhood with other women and struggle against the suffering of exile. In the same towers, every day, Radhia and Kadiatou, who had to give up their profession, scrub, sweep and clean the stairwells tirelessly. At dawn, Najiba leaves the neighborhood to work the land she loves so much. In three chapters, these Algerian, Guinean and Syrian women tell us, in their own language, about their journey and their ways of resisting, of building a land of their own every day, from what they have left and what they have revived.