After seven years away, the filmmaker returns to Yaoundé, the village in Cameroon where she grew up, with her white European husband and their young son. Now living in Belgium, Mbakam not only reunites with her family and homeland but embarks upon a revelatory project of exploring her childhood, her parents’ lives and the wider stories of Cameroonian women. The “two faces” appear in different guises: from Mbakam’s own existence between two worlds—she is an acclaimed filmmaker, yet her mother has only been to the movies once—and the less obvious duality that older Bamiléké women balance on a daily basis, including within unhappily arranged marriages. Mbakam’s mother directly experienced the horrific violence of French colonialism and the death of her son, while revealing that her husband’s second wife made her miserable. Despite the hardships, what emerges in their tales are actions of quiet, radical rebellion. Many of the women featured work for themselves, find loopholes in tradition or create new, supportive ones, like the tontine. Mbakam, too, has joined these ranks, creatively responding to neocolonial repercussions by renewing the bonds between generations while illuminating the resilience, wisdom and generosity of Bamiléké matriarchs.