Filmmaker Livia Simoka spends five months living with the Mbendjele, a hunter-gatherer community in the rainforest of the Republic of the Congo, almost entirely cut off from roads and outside contact. A family adopts her into their daily routine, and the camera follows her through hunting trips, childbirth, funeral rites, and the tribal practice of female tooth sharpening, filmed up close rather than narrated from a distance. The Mbendjele are often described as egalitarian, with women holding roughly equal status to men, but Simoka's access reveals a rougher reality underneath, including polygamy, domestic violence, and male dominance she witnesses firsthand rather than hears secondhand. Beyond the domestic picture, the film tracks outside pressures closing in on the community: tension with neighboring groups and a road project planned to cut straight through their territory. Shot from a female perspective inside a culture rarely filmed at all, it balances intimacy with the community against a clear-eyed account of the threats to how they live.