Assa Traoré's life changed dramatically on July 19, 2016, a scorching evening when her younger brother Adama was pronounced dead in the courtyard of the Persan gendarmerie. Handcuffed behind his back, face down, asphyxiated. That day, he was supposed to celebrate his 24th birthday.

Beyond the infinite pain, the violence of such a tragedy inevitably exhausts all energy, confiscates smiles and strength from those who remain. For Assa Traoré and her family, it was the opposite. The horror lifted them up. Carried by the support of the inhabitants of Beaumont-sur-Oise, the Traorés transformed pain into combat. With the support of the "committee for Adama", Assa became a warrior.

In her "Letter to Adama", Assa Traoré recounts an unprecedented citizen struggle against police violence, the legal and media battle that had to be waged to deconstruct the lies and remain the custodian of Adama's story. She denounces the behavior and role of the police in the face of marginalized and stigmatized youth, thus highlighting the determinism that her family did not escape. Finally, she revives the memory of a young man whose first name is now imposed throughout France as the banner of two demands: "Truth and justice".