The Mother of God is Nile. Mukasonga S.

Rwanda, the beginning of the 1970s. In the Lyceum of the Mother of God of Nile, not far from the source of the Great Egyptian River, young girls are preparing to become those who they want to see them: good wives, good mothers, good Christians. Their life takes place in ordinary works and concerns. But under the apparent calm, racial hatred smolders, which can flare up at any second. The “ethnic” quota limits the number of students, persecution multiply, and prayers become more desperate. What will the inhabitants of the Lyceum of the Mother of God Niles do in order to boldly meet a new era face to face?