Christendom has long played an important role in Africa. It has also often clashed with traditional religions.
We are in the 1930s. In a village several kilometres from the administrative centre, men attached to ancestral traditions have no other ambition than to live in peace. The evangelical mission had set up a school and asked the population to build a chapel. The work dragged on, infuriating the parish priest, who enlisted the help of the sacristan and the village chief to speed up the construction of the chapel. The arrival of a young teacher, full of modernist ideas, and the hostile attitude of the schoolmaster enabled the parish priest to reinforce his authority.
