Photo: AFP, Allen and Unwin
It was the case that shocked the world. The nightmare endured by French grandmother Gisèle Pelicot, drugged and raped - not only by her husband in their small village - but by at least 72 other men over the period of a decade.
Late last year Dominique Pelicot and 49 of those men were convicted after a months-long trial of her rape or sexual assault. In the immediate aftermath of finding out about her father's crimes, his daughter Caroline Darian, documented what she, her mother and brothers went through.
Her book, I'll Never Call Him Dad Again, has just been published in English. She describes being told that in amongst the thousands of videos and photos, were naked images of herself. It led to a breakdown - and then, a determination to draw attention to how the system supports trauma victims, and the commonality of chemical submission in sexual assaults.
She tells Kathryn how her mother Gisèle is recovering.
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