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 U er Volta in the com any 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 lantations 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 Euro e, life went out without him. Georges will des erately try to find his lace, with the hel of Hélène (Céline Salette), a sign language teacher with whom he will have a tumultuous relationshi , and his family, that he selfishly left behind. He will finally attem t to heal their wounds, and his.