Synopsis
Between us, a secret is a road-movie that tells the story of Toumani Kouyaté, a tradicional Djeli (storyteller and conflict mediator of West Africa) who lived in Brazil and is called by his Grandfather to return to his homeland and listen to a last story he needs to pass to him before his death. In this mystic journey, where he reencounters his family in a Counseling State Assembly, led by the tradicional storytellers, Toumani will have the chance to reconnect himself with his Ancestors and the iniciatique places that originated the Mandé Empire, where the storytellers were the King's advisors and conflict mediators, and with the power of their magical words sustained peace at the Malinké society.
