In Burkina Faso, a terrible bacterium called Noma, attacks young children and literally devours their faces within a few days.

They suffer a lot. 90% of them die from it. The others remain horribly injured, with their jaws locked. As they cannot eat any longer, as their body gives off an awful smell, they live banished, away from the village. Most people think this terrifying disease cannot be healed since a curse is hanging over the child.

However, this disease can be eradicated with simple antibiotics. Now, for a couple of months, some of the children have been cured.

This very moving film follows some of the children from banning to their return to life, as the "white doctors' miracle" turns out to be a knowledge to be transmitted to the people from Burkina.