“The Kingdom is a coming-of-age story: through Lesia’s journey I want to show the self-sacrifice she has to make in order to be accepted by adults, to survive this omnipresent threat of death, to have the perseverance to love her father and to be loved in return. My co-writer Jeanne and I wanted to portray a sentinel child, mature, her wound hidden away, kind and courageous, reasonable but obstinate.”