Jean Peyral was a soldier of the French colonial troops stationed in Senegal. Somewhere, far in France, his bride is waiting for him - young Jeanne from his village, lost in the Cevennes mountains, where he has not been for three whole years. And here, in Africa, one day he ransoms the little African woman Fata, who follows him like a shadow and gradually envelops him with the witchcraft spell of African passion...