Oumarou Ganda's directorial debut, written for a screenplay contest at the Franco-Nigerien Cultural Center, follows a Nigerien veteran of the French colonial army in Indochina who returns home broke and struggles to find his place, drawing on Ganda's own wartime experience.
Fun fact: The film is often described as Ganda's answer to Jean Rouch's Moi, un Noir, in which Ganda had starred a decade earlier before becoming a director himself.