A heartbreaking account of a poor and illiterate young West Africans odyssey to Europe translated by one of Britains most celebrated playwrights. Ibrahima whose family live in a village in the West African country of Guinea helps his father sell shoes at a street stall in the capital Conakry. At the sudden death of his father he becomes the head of the family and picks up various skills always alone and away from home although his dream is to be a truck driver in his country. But when his little