Bellina
We are in Burkina, in the land of the Lobi, during a great fertility ritual. The ethnologist is in the field with her young son. A call from France : their dog (Bellina) is suffering from a terrible disease. They can reduce her suffering with palliative treatments. The child cries for the one he thinks of as his little sister. The Lobi, made aware of the situation, recommend instead putting her down as soon as possible in order to make a great soup of her, as the cynophagy ritual requires. Two different viewpoints, approaches and behaviours are suddenly face to face, discussed and commented on. They are analysed through graphic discussion, field anecdotes gathered from completely unrelated studies and stories of myth-like quality. Put forward, these rambling discussions highlight the violent disconnect as much as they reveal crucial and surprising links, uniting man to dog, in France and in Burkina.