Nothing predestined Hervé Bourges to become president of the biggest French media groups. His anti-colonial comitments in Algeria had left him on the fringe, he will go further this time in black Africa, in Yaoundé. Hervé Bourges, between embers and light, « Hervé Bourges, the African »... this movie will trace the path of a counter-current commitment and through this, the history of the media from the fifties to these days...