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Adopting a psychoanalytic perspective, this article provides a reflection on the post-genocide period and the feeling of shame among survivors in the context of mass murder in Rwanda. From a theoretical standpoint, it reflects on how genocidal violence attacks the ties of filiation and the work of psychological transmission to pass on a traumatic heritage through generations. I draw upon the clinical case of a young woman with a Tutsi mother and Hutu father, who is in exile after fleeing Rwanda and who consulted for depression. The analysis highlights the freezing of affects and the effects of talking it out in psychotherapy by pointing out how one shame can conceal another.