Camille Plagnet

On October 31, 2014, in Burkina Faso, the people ousted President Blaise Compaoré after 27 years in power. Two years after these events, we set out to investigate in Ouagadougou, searching for the individuals captured in a photograph taken during the occupation of the national television station that day: nine revolutionaries lost to history.

Leaving one's family at 7, 12 or 16 years old. Taking up residence in front of a shop, in a video store, outside a bus station. Learning to do drugs, beg, steal, flee, and fight. Making friends and enemies. Integrating into a new world. Five Bakoroman on the road from their village to Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso's capital city, in pursuit of a better life.

Between getting by and getting into trouble, the life and petty trafficking of Eugène, a 20-year-old "business man" in Ouagadougou.

Martin, in a last ditch hope, comes to meet Léa in Paris. They are both twenty-five and shared their first love story together. They are both now striving to mature.

On October 31, 2014, in Burkina Faso, the people ousted President Blaise Compaoré after 27 years in power. Two years after these events, we set out to investigate in Ouagadougou, searching for the individuals captured in a photograph taken during the occupation of the national television station that day: nine revolutionaries lost to history.

Leaving one's family at 7, 12 or 16 years old. Taking up residence in front of a shop, in a video store, outside a bus station. Learning to do drugs, beg, steal, flee, and fight. Making friends and enemies. Integrating into a new world. Five Bakoroman on the road from their village to Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso's capital city, in pursuit of a better life.

Between getting by and getting into trouble, the life and petty trafficking of Eugène, a 20-year-old "business man" in Ouagadougou.