"The Kabyls exist primarily through speech. Each gesture, each instant of their daily life flows into a verse, a metaphor, a proverb… This is a reality that one cannot fully apprehend in the society of immigration when confronted with these men and women – often illiterate – relegated to the borders as labourers or household helps. It is hard to imagine the eloquent orators that they become when they switch back to their mother tongue. I sensed this reality and measured its intensity and calibre by filming my mother, her history and her present."
