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When Cyriague Kouenou sang a critical song in his home country Ivory Coast, his father was killed as a repercussion. Kouenou fled to the Netherlands. Staying in our country he has now entered his fourth year on a surrealistic trip with no end in sight, with stopovers in a tent camp, an empty church, an old office building and a former prison. A no man's land where you are stuck after being told that you aren't allowed to stay but also can't be sent back. With his songs Cyriaque fights his destiny and lets others, if only for a while, forget their sorrows. Gradually Cyriaqua reverses the role of the filmmaker from someone who thinks he is helping the underprivileged, to one of fortune hunter. Not meant as a political indictment, the movie offers a surrealistic portrayal of an impassioned musician, a messenger, an African mystic detached and cut off from everything yet still remaining an optimist while having nothing. His music runs like a river through this no-man's land and the movie. Slowly, between the prophet and the filmmaker an alliance is forged. However it's an alliance that can only result in dissolution. (Verleiher-Text)