This film is produced by the famous Burkinabe film maker Idrissa Ouedraogo.
It is a story about the love of a woman for her child. Kaya, the heroine of the film, loses her baby on the delivery table - or at least from the hut of the midwife where she is giving birth. This is not because the child has died, but because the greed of the chief of Kaya's village has lead him to betray her trust and snatch the baby at birth and give it to its father in return for money.
The baby's father is Patrick, a young European who came to the village to dig a borehole and became infatuated with Kaya. When he flees to Europe talking their child, Kaya is so traumatised, she loses the ability to speak. Nine years later, the borehole Patrick has dug breaks down. Patrick is sent back to repair it.
He retraces his steps, bringing his daughter with him to introduce her to Africa, and to put her in touch with her black roots. But this journey of discovery is going to become as dramatic for the little girl as the day of her birth.
This time it is her mother, who she knows nothing about, who runs off with her into the bush. Thus begins a journey of discovery for the two women - mother and daughter - who must learn to live with one another, despite cultural differences, the difficulties of living in the bush, and the difficulties of communicating.
Clashes, tears and shared laughter become the rhythm of this new relationship.
Meanwhile Patrick has hired some men to track them down. He scours the bush with them, following every clue which might lead him to his daughter. The quest is long and tough, to such an extent that two of the men are ready to abandon the search. At is at this moment that Patrick reveals the terrible secret that his daughter is gravely ill with a cancer which could kill her at any time.
The dreaded outcome comes to pass, provoking in the child's mother a kind of catharsis which releases her from the silence which has imprisoned her for the last nine years.
The power of the images and the emotion they convey will transport the film lover to another universe, far from our realities and our calculations, towards, quite simply, love, the love of a mother for her child.
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