Beginning in South Africa under the apartheid regime, the film follows a young girl who flees the country after a violent confrontation with a local white landowner in which her father is killed. She settles in Abidjan, where, ten years later, she has become a university student. As part of her studies, she visits the Taureg tribe on the edge of the Sahara before at last returning to post-Apartheid South Africa.
Directed by Souleymane Cissé
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Cast
Linèo Tsolo
Nandi
Sidi Yaya Cissé
Solofa
Eric Miyeni
The father
Mary Twala
Grandmother
Nakedi Ribane
The mother
Mariame Amerou Mohamed Dicko
Nandi at 6 years
Balla Moussa Keita
Teacher
Adam Rose
Killer Policeman
Niamanto Sanogo
Rastas' prophet
Martin Le Maitre
Vusi Kunene
Aïcha Amerou Mohamed Dicko
Siradje Cissé
Michele Burgers
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