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.

100,000 children die each year in Africa, South America and South Asia because of this illness called NOMA that might be overthrown quite easily.

Shot in Niger, this film shows the work of some doctors and surgical teams who try to save children from what is supposed to be their destiny.