A white-robed preacher wanders and sermonizes across African lands; European communists and CIA spies conspire out of mutual self-interest to engineer the appointment of an African bourgeois to a puppet government presidency; and a revolutionary group marches in exile.
Set in the 1930s, it shows life in a village some distance from the administrative post, where the people live by the traditions of their ancestors. The priest of an Evangelical mission comes into conflict with a young school teacher.
