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After fleeing their home in Romania, Mala and her family travel to France to make an offering to Sara e Kali – patron saint of the Roma whose statue rests in a small church in Saintes Maries de la Mer. Once the family’s pilgrimage is complete, they seek refuge among their own during a time when anti-Roma sentiment is running high. As the government begins to expel hundreds of foreign-born ‘gypsies’, a local man arrives at the travellers’ camp wanting to learn about the Roma and it falls to Mala to tell their story.
Five stories covering one thousand years, The Words That Made Us chronicles the mistrust, misunderstandings and monstrous cruelty that has followed a scattered nation whose only crime was that of being different.
After fleeing their home in Romania, Mala and her family travel to France to make an offering to Sara e Kali – patron saint of the Roma whose statue rests in a small church in Saintes Maries de la Mer. Once the family’s pilgrimage is complete, they seek refuge among their own during a time when anti-Roma sentiment is running high. As the government begins to expel hundreds of foreign-born ‘gypsies’, a local man arrives at the travellers’ camp wanting to learn about the Roma and it falls to Mala to tell their story.
Five stories covering one thousand years, The Words That Made Us chronicles the mistrust, misunderstandings and monstrous cruelty that has followed a scattered nation whose only crime was that of being different.