Peculiar

Sainy, a young Gambian immigrant arrives in Paris with high hopes for a better life. At first he faces a lot of immigration restrictions. He is later seduced by Fatou, a Gambian divorcée who madly falls in love with him, and they get married. Through the eyes of the protagonist, the reader discovers the purposefulness as well as purposelessness and realities as well as illusion surrounding the community of African immigrants living in France, marked by racism, treachery, jealousy...