Mahamat-Saleh Haroun	...	(Director)
Mahamat-Saleh Haroun	...	(Writer)
Ahidjo Mahamat Moussa	...	Tahir
Hamza Moctar Aguid	...	Amine
Zara Haroun	...	Achta (Mother)
Mounira Khalil	...	The Mute Girl
Diego Moustapha Ngarade	...	Uncle Adoum (as Diego Mustapha N'Garade)
Koulsy Lamko	...	The Father
Garba Issa	...	The Headmaster
Ramada Mahamat	...	The teacher's wife
Hassan Boulama	...	Hassan
Sossal Mahamat	...	Teacher's assistant
Hadje Fatime N'Goua	...	The doctor
Nouraldine Mahamat Alio	...	Police chief
Christophe N'Garoyal	...	Factory manager
Haoua Tantine Abakar	...	Angry neighbour
Adoum Albert	...	Fighting boy
Mounira Mitchala	...

Summary: The lives of two brothers, who live in N'djamena, are upended when they awake one Saturday morning to find that their father has left the family. They are Amine, about eight years old, playful and asthmatic, and Tahir, 15, handsome, quiet, his brother's protector. The boys go in search of their father, and find only trouble. Dad's leaving also debilitates their mother. The movies, a musical uncle, a village Koran school, a poster of a Moroccan beach, and a young deaf woman figure in the resolution. Is there any place for happiness, or is happiness only in storybooks?