Muna Moto

Ngando and Ndomé are in love. They want to marry, but Ngando is poor and cannot meet the dowry that custom demands. Ndomé becomes pregnant and bears his child. By the decision of the village she has to take a husband, one who can pay the dowry. The man chosen is Ngando’s uncle, who already has three wives and no children by them. Nothing is left in Ngando’s hands. On the day of the ceremony, in the middle of the wedding feast, he takes his own daughter away. The account sets custom against the younger generation. Jean-Pierre Dikongué-Pipa’s Cameroonian film, ninety minutes long, was completed in 1975.