La "MaQuiSarde" de Bamako

Est l'histoire d'une jeune fille, Safiatou, qui quitte sa ville na-tale de San pour Bamako, la capitale, o elle doit poursuivre ses tudes. Originaire d'une famille pauvre mais honorablement connue et p trie d'une ducation rigoureuse, Safi se trouve brutalement en face de r alit s diff rentes marqu es par la grande

ville dont elle d couvre avec effarement les non-dits et les des- sous tr s peu honorables. C'est Bamako by night qu'elle d couvre la faveur de ses relations plut t laborieuses avec deux amies aussi diff rentes qu'elles se ressemblent par certains traits: d'un c t Oumou sa voisine de quartier qui vit et fait vivre sa m re en vendant ses charmes, de l'autre Dj n ba, sa voisine de classe qui, entre son mec le Barbu et l'ami de celui-ci Barry, tous deux buveurs inv t r s et trafiquants de drogue, m ne une vie plut t d pouill e de contraintes morales. Safiatou, peu pr par e assimiler ce contraste entre la vie simplette qu'elle a connue San et celle dont elle d couvrait progressivement les multiples facettes ne tardera pas tre sujette de graves conflits internes que l'extr me pr carit de sa situation rendait encore plus pres. Elle ne sortira pas indemne de ces tiraillements qui, lentement mais inexorablement, la plongeront dans le monde parall le de la prostitution et la drogue.... Parviendra-t-elle s'en extirper ?

This is the story of a young girl, Safiatou, who leaves her hometown of San for Bamako, the capital, where she is to pursue her studies. From a poor but respectable family steeped in a rigorous upbringing, Safi is abruptly confronted with different realities, marked by the big city, whose unspoken truths and less-than-honorable undercurrents she discovers with dismay. It is Bamako "by night" that she discovers through her rather arduous relationships with two friends as different as they are similar in certain ways: on one side, Oumou, her neighbor, who lives and supports her mother by selling her body; on the other, Dj n ba, her classmate, who, between her boyfriend "the Bearded One" and his friend Barry, both inveterate drinkers and drug dealers, leads a life rather devoid of moral constraints. Safiatou, ill-prepared to grasp the stark contrast between the simple life she knew in San and the multifaceted world she was gradually discovering, would soon find herself plagued by serious internal conflicts, exacerbated by her precarious situation. She would not emerge unscathed from these inner turmoil, which would slowly but inexorably plunge her into the parallel world of prostitution and drugs... Would she manage to escape?