影片讲述的是一个人从童年到成年的叉路上的遭遇。年轻的主人公虽然才经历了一段短短的生活里程，却渴望获得本族世代相传的遗产中如何克服困难、驾驭险途的神秘力量。但他的父亲却不愿意让他出头露面，并且想要杀死他。母亲救了儿子，并把他送往远方。通过一段艰苦的路途，年轻人开始体验到了如何战胜他父亲的至为重要的经验和力量

一个省军政府长官的女儿爱上一个大学生同学，而男孩家是马里过去政府首领的分支。两个家庭反对这门亲事，这对情人也日益增多地参与到学生运动中以反对腐败的政府。政治的混合，浪漫和社会评论，在这兼具古今价值的故事上展开…

一名年轻的默默的妇女被强暴并且怀孕，直接给她的家庭内带来灾难性的结果。 电影同时也成为了20世纪70年代马里都市的社会/ 经济形势的素描，特别是关于处理妇女问题，极具震撼力度。

简介：
影片讲述一个非洲男人的生活，同时也是在讲述任何一个在公司里工作并想守住真诚的人的生活。一年轻经理给一男子提供了工作，因为他的家人都在前者家里服务。当他开始工作，留意其他人的福利时，开始看出公司是如何虐待工人。经理在自身的道德和其它人挑战的双重压力下，艰难保护他自己的利益。当男人决定要离开时，他发现命运可怕的暴力。

This film, which has been shown twice in France on the Arte channel but is, I believe, not available on video, is one of the most impressive films from one of the francophonic world's greatest directors. Beginning in South Africa under the apartheid regime, it follows a young girl who flees the country after a violent confrontation with a local white landowner in which her father is killed. She settles in Abidjan, where, ten years later, she has become a university student. As part of her studies, she visits the Taureg tribe on the edge of the Sahara before at last returning to post-Apartheid South Africa. This is a vastly ambitious film, attempting as it does to deal with a number of cultures and countries of contemporary Africa, each with its own history, language, and political and social conflicts. At its center are two immensely impressive performances by the actresses who play the heroine, first as a young girl, and later as an adult. Thus it manages to be at once an intimate portrait of a young woman, and a vast fresco of much of a continent.