Petit à petit (1970)
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Damouré Zika, Lam Ibrahima Dia, Illo Gaoudel, Ariane Bruneton
A Nigerien businessman travels to Paris to study life in multi-story buildings, prompting his companions to wonder whether he has lost his mind.
The story
Damouré runs the Petit à petit import-export company in Ayorou, Niger, with Lam and Illo. When he decides to build a “big building” in his village, he travels to Paris to find out how people live in multi-story houses. There, he encounters Parisian ways of living and thinking that strike him as curious, and he regularly sends accounts of his observations to his companions in letters he describes as “Persian Letters.” His reports eventually leave Lam and Illo convinced that something is wrong with him. They send Lam to Paris to join Damouré and see the situation for himself.
Full plot (contains spoilers)
Damouré, who runs the Petit à petit import-export company in Ayorou, Niger, with Lam and Illo, decides to build a “big building” in his village. He goes to Paris to see “how people can live in multi-story houses.” In the capital, he discovers the Parisians’ curious ways of living and thinking, which he describes in “Persian Letters” sent regularly to his companions. Eventually, they believe he has gone mad and send Lam to join him and see for himself…
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