Allah n'est pas obligé

Birahima, a Guinean orphan of about ten years old, must leave his village to try to cross the border and find an aunt who is said to have settled in Liberia. The boy follows Yacouba, a street vendor who poses as a guide. But along the way, an encounter with child soldiers changes Birahima's fate. As an involuntary recruit, what does the warpath have in store for him?