Based on a recent legal case that crosses borders, Primacy offers an intimate and astonishingly balanced insight into the experience of a young woman who leaves her home and confronts her father in a Canadian courtroom.
Poojita Verma's tender, hopeful voice exposes the shortcomings of the international legal infrastructure in providing redress for survivors of childhood sexual abuse, while honoring the generations of women who protected and educated her, and whose sacrifices ultimately put her in a position to speak out.Verma asks: What precedents—legal, personal, and cultural—do we rewrite for ourselves and others every time we act? What does it look like to know romantic love, and come of age, to come clean about our feelings?
