A gifted seamstress, played by the filmmaker Rosine Mbakam’s cousin, has to put out a string of fires in this rich portrait of Cameroonian womanhood. By Beatrice Loayza When you purchase a ...

Pierrette Albina Lussier was the eldest of eight children of Irené Lussier and Aurore Beaudoin. In her early 20s, she left home for Niagara Falls, Ont., with her younger sister to learn English.