Angelo

"I am a son of Africa, but a man of Europe." The setting is the 18th century in which 10-year-old Angelo Soliman has been abducted from Africa and taken to Europe to be gradually Europeanised by a marchioness. In spite of his baptism, accent-free French, brilliant recorder playing skills and seemingly great acceptance in high society, Angelo still feels like a foreigner uprooted from his own culture. A few years later, he enters the service as a valet of a Viennese prince and falls in love with the maid Magdalena. She is the first person to not see Angelo for his exoticism but the human being he is. But after years of heteronomy and dissimulation, the path to freedom is not an easy one for Angelo.