This poem, of rare intensity, carries us into the heart of the moving story of Samia Yusuf Omar, the young Somali athlete who, in 2008, embodied in her stride the promise of a radiant future at the Beijing Olympic Games. Alain Freixe’s prose, like a meditation, unveils the tension between the dignity of a dream and the brutality of the female condition in Somalia, where oppression and the absence of freedom weigh heavily.The metaphor of the north wind opening the door evokes