In a country with a violent, complicated past, stories are passed on from mothers to daughters to preserve a sense of history and create a record for the future. In the “The Missing Peace”, Lamort’s grandmother’s asks Lamort to take her secretly to a mass grave where Emilie’s mother, a supporter of the old government, may have been dumped. A soldier tries to stop Emilie, who defies him. Bu to pass the guard , there is a password, so Lamort says “peace,” a password is given to her by a soldier but the password changed. Lamort’s name means “death” because her mother died when she was born, but when she goes home where she demands to be called Marie Magdalènene, her mother’s name. An assumption is the government is fearing women, but older, wise
