A female journalist is standing in front of two cameras. A cameraman gives the countdown of the last seconds with his fingers and signals to the journalist that she is live.
JOURNALIST
Tonight’s Point Of View is devoted to accelerated chromosomal deficiency, or A-C-D, a recent phenomenon that has put the scientific world on alert.My guest is Professor Mendel who heads the Institute for Applied Anthropology in Paris…
Asherah and three other women are silently working in a room that has been transformed into a laboratory. All four wear white coats, bouffant caps, and gloves, and have masks on their faces.
Someone knocks at the door.
A group of men belonging to Daesh, dressed in black and armed, arrives on the landing leading to the apartments on the second floor of the building.
One of them shouts a few orders in Arabic, and the group splits in two, half of them going to the right, the others to the left.
Sitting in the living room, the grandmother, the uncle, a couple in their forties, and two young men drink tea and discuss in Kurdish.
All of a sudden, shots are heard from the neighboring apartment. They all stop talking and…
The inhabitants of the building have all been gathered in the street. The men of Daesh separate the young women and the children from the rest. Children are forcibly pulled out of the arms of their mother when these are judged to be too old. Women and children cry and yell.
Thirty women and two men are sitting at tables with glasses, cups, and a few bottles of water and wine.
Inanna stands up.
INANNA
Although none of us has been apprehended or even bothered, the…
Inanna is lying on a large bed, a book in her hands. The door to the bathroom is open.
Anyway, you did very well tonight. Well done! It always impresses me to see the passion that inhabits you when you speak about things you…