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Many young people in Rwanda have to “go back in time” (Altounian 2013) and undertake a “return to the fracture of existence” (Masson 2004) in order to regain the legacy of a family that they lost at the same time as they access themselves. When establishing and sharing the space “between generations,” those who are ready to start again from traditional values and regenerate them gain access to another legacy, one of a human dimension. Transgenerational’ refers here to the principle and process of creation and recreation of the relationship between generations, and therefore of transmission. It makes it possible to question how, after genocide, a structuring and personal and social organization between generations can emerge, or re-emerge—whether this is a bilateral relationship of responsibility, of obligation, or of the law. The authors base their arguments on an ongoing action research project that started in September 2010, aimed at creating psychological recovery spaces for survivor mothers and their adolescent children. The case of Peace, ""a child of everyone and of no one, of everywhere and of nowhere,” shows how it is incumbent on the subject emerging from such a context to undertake the construction of their own future, to build their own story rather than continuing to be a victim and suffering the weight of the traumatic legacy through the generations. The “transgenerational” comes to designate a key fulcrum and point of essential revival in this daunting task.