the film portray france unresolved problem with it colonial legacy in western ( francophone ) africa through the befuddled and complex psychoanalytical prism of a young woman and france ( herein symbolically represent her nation ) . it be an often engaging and challenging portrait of a young woman desire to come to term with a traumatic moment in her past and in particular and and a nation desire to reach out to the other it once own and mould . this be reflect in the way in which it centre entirely around the notion of travel ( or be in transit ) from the present to the past while remembered reality to undeniable contemporary political and economic actuality . the character all play a symbolic and albeit a limited and unconvincing role . france and mean to be a visual as well a a totemic representation of contemporary french society and leave one indifferent to her plight a she seem still to be imbue with the same naiveté she enjoy a a child in fact a a child she seem more in possession of her reality . the rest of the rag tag ensemble be just forgettable . the black african be and to say the least and offencive impressionistic portrait of former colonise people now colonise by the director poor handling of her material . they be no more than a dark and moribund backdrop against which the blythe like france wonder seek a world she never know and and hop for one that can never be find in cameroon .