Bintu walks two hours to a small, rusty back gate of a police station to report that her uncle has raped her, only to meet extortion, ridicule, and deliberate negligence. Turned into the problem instead of the victim, she loses work, housing, and family support, and is advised that “silence is safer.” With help from a women’s rights group, she forces the system to acknowledge her case, exposing officers who tried to bury it. After a long, humiliating trial, her uncle is finally jailed, and Bintu leaves the courthouse determined never again to enter justice through a back gate.
