Motherhood

Twelve-year-old Chika is bullied because her mother is known in the village as “the mad woman.” Determined to understand the truth, she learns from her grandmother that her mother, Alice, suffered from untreated POSTPARTUM DEPRESSION after childbirth—a condition misunderstood and dismissed by her family and community until it led to severe MENTAL ILLNESS. Chika transforms her painful childhood into purpose, becoming a therapist who advocates for maternal mental health and fights the stigma surrounding postpartum depression, ensuring that her mother is remembered not as “the mad woman,” but as