Eleven years after the genocide, the film accompanies survivors and executioners before and after the first popular Gacaca trials, where they come face to face. There's Obede, accused of killing children, whose plea for forgiveness is merely a cynical strategy to gain his freedom. Then there's Gahutu, who has "no remorse" and who, in front of his judges, always refers to those who were exterminated as "snakes". Finally, there's François, who was forced to kill his own brother in order to survive, and who is now trying to reconcile with his sister-in-law. Through these three stories, the film weaves a portrait of a society at war with the ever-present ideology of genocide.