Synopsis

"After my motherhood, at 38, I triggered memories of sexual abuse experienced during my childhood and adolescence within my family, in the context of a seemingly ordinary home. 

For years, without remembering anything of what they did to me, I lived my life as a normal girl. 

I'm telling it today, not as a victim, but as part of my biography and as a path to healing. 

Making it public is my personal decision and my right. 

Breaking the pact of silence is my way of making amends. 

This is what I experienced. This is my story." 

 

"There are still those who think that "these things are better left undone," who believe it's better to sweep the shit under the carpet and look the other way. 

Fortunately, on the other side, we're losing our fear. We are a growing multitude raising our voices against injustice, weaving a network of support and solidarity, and legitimized by emotional well-being and the projection of a future without violence. 

I would be failing myself, the girl who experienced what I'm recounting today, if I didn't put all this on the table. I would be failing my son if his mother, remembering the hell she endured as a child, continued to meet with her abusers at birthdays and celebrations as if nothing had happened. 

(...) You are my past, but you will not be part of my present, much less my future. 

What you did is not a secret, and it never will be. 

I'm breaking the pact of silence with all the consequences. 

Fuck you".