 If Collé represents African women who awaken to resist patriarchal control, then her daughter's fiancé Ibrahima, a rich, upstanding, and open-minded young man living in France, one of Africa's former colonizers, who returns, filmically representing the enlightened elite educated abroad who is welcomed home and observes the barbaric tradition of his village home.His knowledge, money and technologies such as television are appreciated.He witnesses a funeral of two little girls, who desperately drowned themselves in a well to avoid the mutilation of their genitals.