In Ouidah, Benin, the district “The Pantheon of Joy” is the nation of the forgotten, of singers in rags, of dust, of poverty and, nevertheless, of joy.
When, at 12 years old, a fatherless boy becomes the breadwinner of his family, his eyes widen before the villa under construction of a Big Brother who seems to have conquered Europe. And even thought the house is never finished, and the Big Brother might be a legend more than a reality… One must imitate him, at any cost....
In Ouidah, Benin, the district "The Pantheon of Joy". The nation of the forgotten, of singers in rags, of dust, of poverty and, nevertheless, of joy. When, at 12 years old, one is fatherless and becomes the breadwinner of a family, one's eyes widen before the villa under construction of a Big Brother who seems to have conquered Europe. And so much the worse if the house does not finish being built, and so much the worse if this Big Brother whom one does not know is more a legend than a reality... One must imitate him, become "little President Macron", until the irreparable : to sing, to dance, to ask for alms and to quench one's hunger by stealing a tomato, and then to trigger the popular vindictiveness which ends in the « live brazing ».
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