That same evening, the police ring the doorbell at her family home, question her about what is then described as a ‘shameful crime’ and finally place her in police custody for a simple piece of packaging left on the public highway. This marks the beginning of a long downward spiral for her, caught between legal turmoil and malicious gossip.
Faced with the staggering injustice she suffers, the mother initiates an organic response, coming from the depths of her being, as if drawn from the depths of time: she transforms herself into a bear. She becomes wild. When no one listens to her anymore, when the human world locks her away more and more and distances her from others, reconnecting with a deep and ancestral nature is her last resort. It is her way of taking control of the course of events.
In everyday language that gradually veers towards the poetic, Penda Diouf constructs an ecofeminist fable rooted in the sordid reality of our times, interweaving police violence, racism and sexism. Evelyne Castellino blends this material with video, choreographed movements and choral voices to compose a theatrical tale bordering on dystopia, in which video surveillance is omnipresent. Between animal survival instinct, the quest for self and resistance in the face of oppression, she offers an alternative narrative freed from reality to respond to the violence of our modern Western societies and feed our imaginations with new fictions.