Hearing impaired, homeless Gala escapes from a man who continually abuses her. While her life becomes a routine in an abandoned old truck on a mountain road, she is unaware the abusive man finds out where her hiding place is.

One night, after a brutal attack, she finds the strength to stand up one last time and starts walking. She has no clue where this survival walk will end up and change her life forever.

A 3 hours flight becomes a race against time for a 24 years old neurotic flight attendant who is doing everything in her power to collect evidence in furtherance of saving an 8 years old girl who she believes is a victim of sexual abuse. The protagonist’s goal becomes imposible to reach thanks to the young girl’s accompanier who avows to be her uncle.

“The Story of a Panty, and of Those Who Make It” is the story of a panty, so innocuous, that protects what is most intimate. A garment which, when one traces its manufacturing process, can symbolize on its own the mechanisms of our globalized world.

This film connects five women: a farmer in the cotton fields of Uzbekistan, a spinner and a dyer in India, an activist for the rights of women workers in Indonesia, and finally my mother working in her shop in Belgium where I grew up.

She used to sell clothes which were made 100% in Belgium. But since the relocation of factories 30 years ago, this is something she cannot offer anymore today.

Step by step, from one stage to another of its manufacture process, from one country to another, the story of this panty brings us close in the intimacy of these five women, each of them like a chain link of globalised production.