So Long Africa

Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris April 2011 Jacques and Safi arrive from Abidjan from where theyve been repatriated in an emergency Hes as tough as nails after too much time in the African sun and enjoying an expatriate lifestyle while running a hotel Safi his fourteenyearold daughter is used to living with her mother and doesnt know what to think about her loudmouthed and useless father who has suddenly taken her away with him Moved to a hostel in Nice they learn to get to know each other to be able to look each in the eye perhaps to love each other But theres also Gloria Safis mother left behind in the upheaval of Abidjan and impossible to contact