The reports showed us who these women are and how they fight, but there is always a deeper question. Why did these women fight? Was it the fear of an ISIS dictatorship? Was it a social hopelessness in the region? Do they fight against the threat of the Caliphate? Or is there something more going on? Could it be that they are also fighting for something, an ideal, a utopia? What leads this broad social group of women, of whom also university graduates, on a road to confrontation with the region?
Documentary filmmaker Jozef Devillé undertook further research and saw that these women are fighting for a radically different society. They call it "democratic confederalism" and in that system democracy, ecology and equality between man and woman are central. It is thanks to the power vacuum, a result of the war against ISIS, that the PKK could seize the opportunity to make their revolutionary, democratic vision a reality. A vision that could be an inspiration not only in the region but far into the West.
