In the early 1920s, Georges Laffont (Romain Duris), traumatised by the horrific trench warfar, decides to leave his life behind and travel to West Africa into the vast territories of Upper Volta in the company of Diofo, artist and also survivor of the Great War. From village to village, Georges uses Diofo's talents as a griot to recruit the villagers as labour for plantations in Ghana.But his adventure leads him to a dead-end, and he comes back to Paris where is brother Marcel (Grégory Gadebois), a war invalid, lives with their mother's. After the war in Europe, life went out without him.Georges will desperately try to find his place, with the help of Hélène (Céline Salette), a sign language teacher with whom he will have a tumultuous relationship, and his family, that he selfishly left behind.He will finally attempt to heal their wounds, and his.
汤姆·哈迪,李梅,杨雁雁,蒂莫西·奥利芬特,福里斯特·惠特克,贾斯汀·康维尔,奎琳·塞普尔维达,路易斯·古兹曼,米歇尔·沃特森,冯推守,吉姆·凯萨,克塞利亚·门德斯-琼斯,理查德·哈林顿,娜格斯·拉什迪,詹妮弗·阿尔莫,汤姆·吴,杰瑞米·安·琼斯,吉尔·温特尼茨,戈登·亚历山大,戴维·张振熙,杰克·莫里斯,Jon-Scott Clark