Louise O'Prey lived trouble-free among her Protestant neighbours in a small mixed housing development until Monday night when she was intimidated by a mob shouting "Kill the Taigs".
Her house, where she had lived alone for the past year and a half, is near the route taken by the Whiterock Orange parade last Saturday.
"I just had to get out last night. There was a mob of about 200-300 attacking this woman Sarah's house. They were attacking the house and dancing on her car and stuff like that. They were waving swords and machetes and shouting 'Kill the Taigs'."
Not far from where she lives is the loyalist West Circular Road. It is only a short distance from the scene of the worst trouble last weekend, where police and soldiers came under automatic gunfire and sustained attack from petrol and blast bombs.
More than 50 civilians and police were treated for injuries, including 22-month-old Caleb Moore, who suffered a fractured skull after he was hit by a rock thrown at his father's car.
As the sedatives wore off yesterday after a night of fear Louise O'Prey began to search for somewhere else to live, wary that those who live nearby could point her out to the mob that has rampaged through the area these past few nights.
"This has been going on since Wednesday of last week. There was never anything before that." Her speech is as tense as it is rapid. Still wearing pyjamas and slippers after seeking comfort in a Catholic neighbour's home in the middle of the night, she tells of the recent intimidation.
She says she spent some time on the floor of her room, trying to ensure her doors and windows were secure, fearful the youths outside would come for her.
"I rang the police at nine o'clock and I told them I was under attack. Nothing happened and I phoned again after 10 minutes. This policemen I was talking to - he was really rude - said: 'I don't understand why you're ringing'. And I shouted back at him: 'Look, there's people coming up the lane towards me here and they've got swords."
As the disturbances continued into the night, she says, she went out to the police who were wearing full riot gear confronting the rioters on the street.
"I wanted to tell them what was going on earlier at my house but they just turned their shields on me, pushing me back and said they were doing all they could."
Now she is gravely worried that one of the Protestants nearby is telling loyalist rioters and paramilitaries where she, and others like her, live.
"I'm afraid to walk past this neighbour's house now for fear she'll tell somebody who I am and where I'm going." She spent yesterday on the phone trying to find somewhere to go.