African aliens

Sainy, a young Gambian, leaves the Gambia for Paris. Like most young Africans he arrives with high hopes for a better life. Confronted by a minefield of immigration restrictions with which he struggles vainly, he accepts an easy way in by marrying a Gambian-born divorcée and becoming the step-father of the woman's young son. As the months pass, Sainy learns new facts about the Africans living in France. He sees how their home-grown values of culture and community and morality adapt in their new culture, for better or worse.

An authentic and gripping story, with sly humour, of African immigrants in Paris facing a seemingly irreconcilable culture clash laden with racism, jealousy, insincerity, betrayal and self destructiveness. This is the pulsating underbelly of Paris that tourists never experience.