Daniel Odimbossoukou

1978 French language film from Gabon

A Senegalese platoon of soldiers from the French Free Army return from combat and are temporarily held in a military encampment with barbed wire fences and guard towers in the desert. Among them are charismatic Sergeant Diatta, educated in Paris and has a French wife and child, and Pays, a soldier left in a state of shock who can only communicate in guttural screams and grunts.

Pierre, a young African man raised in Europe, embarks on a quest to explore his culture, resisting Western influences.