Fragments of Life

The film follows three stories that take place in the slums of a city in French Equatorial Africa At nightfall people seem to regain a vitality which explodes in the bars to the rhythm of the latest hits from the music charts The first part tells the story of PetitJean a young graduate who is unemployed and roams the city in search of work From humiliations to frustrations the destiny of this young ordinary African changes dramatically The second part follows a young girl who transforms herself into an angel of death in order to free herself from a traumatic past The final section is of an encounter between a woman and a man who seem ordinary at first but a past which the woman had thought had forever disappeared resurfaces in this man