An African student at his desk hears a song from his country on the radio. He feels transported back several years to when he was about to leave for France. He starts dancing a few steps. At this moment, his French girlfriend arrives to continue his classical music education. Listening to the first classical record, his mind wanders back to Africa.

Is Africa in Africa, on the banks of the Seine or in the Latin Quarter? Bitter-sweet questions posed by a generation of artists and students in search of their civilization, their culture and their future.

This documentary captures the sport of traditional wrestling, called 'lamb' in Wolof, popular in Senegal. Vieyra presents the rigorous rules of the sport and training practices by the sea. The Dakar Arena serves as a showcase for the battles in the film, where every spectator can bet on his favorite wrestler in a festive atmosphere.. Fifty years ago, Lamb was in the official selection of the Cannes Film Festival, a first for a film from sub-Saharan Africa.

Birago Diop, conteur (“Birago Diop, Storyteller”) offers a portrait of the famous Senegalese writer and poet. While young writers of Antillean and African descent chose poetry to express the search for their identity within the Negritude movement, Birago Diop adopted African folklore as a mode of expression.