About the Film

In times of social distance and the barrier gesture to protect one's neighbor, expression becomes an invaluable act to preserve our humanities. In Mbas mi, the director invites Goo Mamadou Ba to lend his voice to revive an essential text by Albert Camus. In the twilight of memory island, an incantatory voice rises. Carried by the surf, it changes according to a memory. From the alleys dotted with man-lanterns to the tops of sentinel baobabs, the words of "La Peste" resonate.

"The film requires everyone's gaze: in the mass of ruins and moral disaster, it is no longer suffering that is important. In the episode of the plague recreated to name something universal, it is a matter of the responsibility that falls to us. Us? Yes, Rieux is our common name. Shockingly of our time, he is the shared subject who whispers to us the imperative of not bowing to fate."

- Excerpt from the review by the Philosopher and writer, El Hadj Hamidou Kasse

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