剧情：在20世纪20年代早期，乔治·拉方特(罗曼·杜瑞斯饰)，受到了可怕的战壕战争的创伤，决定离开自己的生活，在艺术家和一战幸存者Diofo的带领下，前往西非，进入上沃尔塔的广阔领土。从一个村庄到另一个村庄，乔治斯利用Diofo的天赋，招募村民为加纳的种植园劳动。 　　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.