Set in 1973, this coming-of-age portrait follows a group of young Rwandan girls at a Belgian-run Catholic boarding school, taking inspiration from true events that would come to foreshadow the 1994 genocide during the Rwandan Civil War. Many of the girls belong to elite families, while others hold less privilege; further division is sown by ballooning anti-Tutsi rhetoric under existing Hutu rule. The terrain is tense, but in the foreground lies a bewitching yet unassuming story of colonial refusal, flanked by adolescent mischief and curiosity that is surely typical but has, in this case, much higher stakes.
Everything in Djibi's life revolves around his beloved seven-year-old daughter Sofia. This devoted single Father never misses their cherished rite of bedtime stories. Every night as Sofia falls asleep, her father takes her into "Storyland", a fantasy film studio where their extraordinary fairy-tale adventures come to life starring Djibi in the lead role as the heroic Prince Charming. Five years later and nearly an adolescent, Sofia starts to grow out of her father's stories and instead makes up tales of her own with Djibi no longer the heroic lead. As his roles in both the real world and in "Storyland" begin to change, Djibi must find a way to remain eternally the hero of his daughter's life, imagination and stories.