She was the centre of a powerful clique of northern Hutus called le clan de madame or akazu (Kinyarwanda for "little house").
In Kinyarwanda and Kirundi, they are known as ivunja or imvunja (singular) or amavunja (plural).
Filmed entirely in Rwanda with local actors, it is the first narrative feature film in the Kinyarwanda language.
Kinyarwanda, the language of the Banyarwanda, sometimes known as Rwandan language.