“Rolex the Portuguese” has risked the “adventure” in neighbouring Burkina Faso, without success. Here he is back in Abidjan, to make lots of money. With his companions, aged between 15 and 25, he makes a living from casual trade, in particular from that of “grazing”, i.e. online scams, taking advantage of the monetary largesse of white women in search of love or sensations, whose money they then blow in the ‘maquis’ (bars) or nightclubs.
Having made it to Italy, an Ivorian named Inza now plans to cross the mountains to France. Without stylisation, the film observes his everyday life: affairs with women, brushes with European asylum law and the impossibility of finding peace.
Many people died in the village of Ziglo, in western Côte d’Ivoire, during the 2011 civil war. Having waited too long for state justice, Josiane, known as Maman Jo, a native woman who had lost several members of her family, decided to take the village’s destiny into her own hands by creating a space for women to speak out. Spoken Languages: Dioula, French, Guere, Lobi, Moré
