Looking at the lives of a group of African students, this film uses appealing artistic means to depict the problems of a higher education system and ask questions about its social and fundamental effectiveness […] Désiré Ecaré succeeds in presenting this problem in such a way that viewers recognise how educational and social policies can no longer be separated from one another. (Jury statement for the Prize of the Culture Minister of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, Short Film Festival Oberhausen 1969)
