Tasuma

Sogo (Mamadou Zerbo) is an African war veteran who spent many years fighting in Algerian and Indochina as part of the French army. His nickname is Tasuma which means fire. Now retired he goes into the city everyday trying to claim his pension. On one such excursion his wife asks him for some soap. He returns sans pension but with a mill for the village which he buys on credit, mortgaging his non-existent pension. As his pension show no signs of appearing and his creditors start closing in, he decides to live up to his nickname.

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