Je serai moi-même

In 1993, Célestine, a 23 year old Beninese woman, started a training in a "Promotion Centre for rural women". "A man doesn't respect you if you don't earn your living", she says. When she has a husband, she will not want to expect everything from lhim. She holds such ideas from her father, a teacher. According to him, "the African woman must be economically self-sufficient". Still, since Celestine has left school, her independent character has come up against her father's. She left her home to settle down in town and earn her living. Whereas her father believes she is drifting away, the girl resolutely tries to achieve her aim, as she says "be myself". A female parallel with Léandre in "Leandre, the farmer nevertheless", this film shot in two different periods shows the breaking btween two generations, between the parents' disillusioned dreams and the innovating energy of the children who are chasing an ideal against the surrounding stream of conformism and pessimism.