Daouda Lam

A beautiful 14-year-old girl has just reached marriageable age in a village in Senegal. She has many suitors; however, she is in love a poor student who has returned to the village while the university is on strike. At birth, she had been promised in marriage to Diogoye, who went away to work in France. Diogoye, who supplied her parents with many things over the years, has now sent a dowry, and asked that she be married to him in the village in his absence; she would then be sent to France.

Serigne Ibra, un paysan aisé au mauvais caractère, décide un jour de se marier. Sa future épouse doit être d'une beauté parfaite et ne présenter aucune cicatrice. Mais d’après Serigne Ibra, les femmes du village ne correspondent pas à ces critères. Un jour, une très belle jeune femme au passé mystérieux se présente...