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- In the early 1920s, Georges Laffont, traumatized by the horrific trench warfar, decides to leave his life behind and travel to West Africa into the vast territories of Upper Volta in the company of Diofo, artist and also survivor of the Great War. From village to village, Georges uses Diofo's talents as a griot to recruit the villagers as labour for plantations in Ghana. But this adventure leads him to a dead-end, and he comes back to Nantes where his brother Marcel, a war invalid, lives with their mother's. After the war in Europe, life went on without him. Georges will desperately try to find his place, with the help of Helene, a sign language teacher with whom he will have a tumultuous relationship, and his family, that he selfishly left behind. He will finally attempt to heal their wounds...
- A 13-year-old boy is sent from his home in France to live with extended family in rural Burkina Faso.
- In the heart of Ouagadougou, a granite quarry where nearly 2,500 people, adults and children, work in Dantean conditions, on the margins of a society that refuses to see them. But in 2014, the revolution went through this and blew on the minds, a wind of emancipation and hope. A certain audacity..
- Yamba, a 12-year-old victim of child abuse, narrates his life with Ladji, the village's rich (and nasty) merchant.