The hectic life of a dismessed worker

Camille Plagnet |2009 | Francia | 59’

The documentary shows the chaotic life of "Great Z", an engineer of the Abidjan-Ougadougou lines, who was dismissed in 1995 from the National Railways of Burkina Faso following the privatization imposed by the World Bank. A comedy about Africa, which brings us to follow the life of a melancholic black clown with the face painted in white, who wanders on the dusty roads of Ougadougou. We listen to his tormented language and sharp words that narrate his past and his present, his dreams and his pains, revealed in a face of a 54 years old man, grown old prematurely by alcohol and weeping, who fronts the troubles of life with a laugh.