A Way to Love

"He wasn't very tall; brown hair, combed back and notched, high forehead, a shirt with tabs over the shoulder. He smiled as he smoked. Then he held out his hand to Madeleine: "Are you dancing?" She apologized: No, I don't dance much, I don't dance well. But he insisted and pulled her towards the track."

When Madeleine, a discreet and melancholic beauty of the fifties, leaves her native Brittany to follow her husband to Cameroon, she finds herself immersed in a foreign, violent and beautiful world.

In Douala, during a ball at the Delegation, she fell in love with Yves Prigent, half administrator, half adventurer. But decolonization is underway and heralds the end of the game...

Stretched between the post-war province and a dreamed Africa, A Way of Loving evokes the strength of our secret desires and the grace of certain encounters. In small touches of infinite delicacy, it is all the thickness of a woman's life that is revealed.