A beautiful 14-year-old girl has just reached marriageable age in a village in Senegal. She has many suitors; however, she is in love a poor student who has returned to the village while the university is on strike. At birth, she had been promised in marriage to Diogoye, who went away to work in France. Diogoye, who supplied her parents with many things over the years, has now sent a dowry, and asked that she be married to him in the village in his absence; she would then be sent to France.

Mossane, una joven adolescente de 14 años, es deseada por todos los hombres de su poblado, pero ella ama a Fara, un joven estudiante que no puede pagar su dote. Los padres de Mossane quieren que se case con el pudiente Diogaye, quien puede pagar las deudas y mantener a la familia.