Section: Long Narrative
Country: Senegal
Production Year: 2014
Runtime: 94 Minutes
Director: Nicolas Sawalo Cissé
Screenwriter: Nicolas Sawalo Cissé
Cinematographer: Nicolas Sawalo Cissé
Editor: Birom Ceptik Seck
Music Composer: Vieux Mac Faye
Cast: Anta Dembele, Kadia Sall, El hadj Dieng Blanc, Abdoulaye Niang, Sidy Niang , Issa Ndiaye
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Synopsis: A mother ditches her newborn who is later found wrapped in a cardboard box by Ramagelissa an intellectual old poet living in a shack near the discharge areas. The old man gives the child the name of Yaadikone (angel from heaven) and looks after him with love and passion. When he grows up, Yaadikone dreams of transforming the wrecks into green.