I am innocent

April 1994, Rwanda. Jean has just celebrated his seventh birthday when he witnesses the massacre of his family and all the Tutsis in his village by his neighbors and friends. Determined to survive, Jean uses his imagination as a shield against pain and madness.
Initially hidden in an attic by one of his friends, Jean is quickly discovered and enslaved by one of the men who killed his family, before being left for dead and loaded onto a truck carrying the bodies of other Tutsis.
Living among the dead, Jean is saved by a young girl, Espérance, who takes him to Tutsi refugees in the marshes. Every evening, the two children meet, but these moments of joy do not erase the fear renewed each day by the visits of the “cutters” who tirelessly seek to flush out these “people of the marshes.” It becomes essential for Jean to leave, and he sets off for the capital. There, he crosses paths with Veneranda, who decides to pass him off as her son and leave the country with him. Arrested by armed militiamen on the road to Burundi, Veneranda and Jean owe their survival to the arrival of French army soldiers, including Lieutenant Cellan. This man, who had done his military service in Rwanda a few years earlier, takes charge of the child and takes him to Zaire, where a plane to France is waiting for him.
Saved, Jean promises himself to live and transform his anger into words.