There hasn’t been peace in the Congo for 20 years, the army and the various militias are locked in a constant battle over the country’s precious mineral resources. The fighters on both sides have been profiled often but this documentary looks at a group often thought of as merely victims of the war; women. On both sides there are female combatants. Some are fighting for what they believe in, others because they have nowhere else to go and nothing to lose. Many of these women have never seen peace, they joined to replace fathers lost in battle and never looked back. Others have left a militia but are unable to return home so the army seems like the next best option. Who are these women and what motivates them? We meet those on both side to hear their stories.

Stephanie Lamorre is a French documentary filmmaker working as an international independent writer/producer/director having produced a diverse array of films for French television. She spent time alone in Iraq, all Africa, South America, and Central America shooting documentaries covering different subjects from modern slavery to illegal immigration. Stephanie began her career working in Africa as a writer for GEO magazine. She has lived and traveled extensively throughout Africa and frequently in areas of armed conflict. Stephanie’s style is to spend a great deal of time with her subjects so that she becomes an intimate part of their life, and by gaining their trust and keeping her objectivity, she makes the camera invisible to better tell their story.