Breaking the silences that help perpetuate collective and personal trauma, Leaf in the Wind reclaims a suppressed chapter of Cameroonian history.

Executed by the Cameroonian authorities in 1971, hero of the independence struggle Ernest Ouandie left a daughter he never met. Through the painful testimony of his daughter Ernestine's life, Leaf in the Wind looks at the consequences of colonialism, posing the question: is sacrifice freedom's price?