When a woman shelters a group of girls from suffering female genital mutilation, she starts a conflict that tears her village apart.
In the early post-Independence years, a young village girl, who is in love with a young villager, is forced to marry a rich, old man. She tries to poison him and is sent to jail.
The film centers on the plan of a government minister to build a road through a sacred forest and the local community's resistance to this project.
A road-movie through time and space revisiting relationships between Europe and Africa.
