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Mon ayoñ [Crying kid]

  • Mon Ayon
Genre : Drama
Type : Fiction
Original title : Môn Ayem | Mon ayoñ | Enfant Adultérin (L')
Principal country concerned : Column : Cinema/tv
Year of production : 2006
Format : Mid-length
Running time : 55 (in minutes)

Somewhere deep in the forest in south- Cameroon, peasants are improving their custom habits by, farming during the week over and praising the Lord on Sundays. Among them, stay Zollo and his wife Eda. They are waiting the birth of their third child. Everything seems to be all right till the venue of this male child who refuses to suck the breast of his mother. According to traditional nurses, this child refuses to be fed by his mother because of the adultery crime committed by her.

Here come the troubles, and the end of a love story which will lead to the separation of the young couple. What will be the future of the child that caused trouble? According to the elders, no matter is the father of a boy child, he is the child of the whole clan.

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