Zaho Zay

A young woman works as a prison guard in a hopelessly overcrowded jail in central Madagascar She passes the time daydreaming about her father a murderer who abandoned her as a child after killing his own brother In her imagination her father becomes a mythical killer wandering the countryside and rolling enchanted dice to decide the fate of his victims Secretly she yearns for the day her father will turn up amongst the prisoners When a new inmate arrives claiming to know her father her fantasies begin to turn to nightmares