影片时空设在虚构的西非洲国家。由总统领导的Nayak军队和里欧将军带领下的反抗势力在经过长达10年的内战状态后，双方开始出现了和平的谈判。但并非所有民众都支持和平，大家还能嗅到紧张的气氛。影片以一场庆祝的宴会开场，但村里的白痴Tomoto总能用暴力和挑衅行为轻易地破坏和平的努力……

Mossane is a beautiful 14-year-old girl who has just reached marriageable age in a village in Senegal. She has many suitors, including a simple-minded farmer's son who plans to drag her away. Even her own brother Ngor is in love with her. However she is in love with Fara, a poor student who has returned to the village, while the university is on strike. At birth, she had been promised in marriage to Diogoye, who went away to work in France. Diogoye, who supplied her parents with many things over the years, has now sent a dowry, and asked that she be married to him in the village in his absence; she would then be sent to France.