The film follows three stories that take place in the slums of a city in French Equatorial Africa. At nightfall, people seem to regain a vitality which explodes in the bars to the rhythm of the latest hits from the music charts. The first part tells the story of Petit-Jean, a young graduate, who is unemployed and roams the city in search of work. From humiliations to frustrations, the destiny of this young ordinary African changes dramatically. The second part follows a young girl who transforms herself into an angel of death in order to free herself from a traumatic past. The final section is of an encounter between a woman and a man who seem ordinary at first, but a past which the woman had thought had forever disappeared, resurfaces in this man.
L'Oncle (voice)
Kirikú es un niño muy pequeño que sabe exactamente lo que quiere incluso, antes de su nacimiento. Es independiente, generoso y valiente, cualidades que necesitará emplear a fondo porque Kirikú ha nacido en un poblado africano sobre el que la terrible y hermosa bruja Karabá ha extendido un maleficio: no hay flores, ni agua, tienen que entregarle tributos y no quedan hombres, porque según creen los habitantes del poblado, se los ha comido la bruja.
The Sentinel
A European official seeking to leave the Congo with his mistress in 1960 is stopped at a checkpoint.
