Banged Up Abroad | WHEN THE COUP CAME, I CHOSE THE DAM OVER MY MEN—AND PAID THE PRICE IN REDEMPTION

Banged Up Abroad | WHEN THE COUP CAME, I CHOSE THE DAM OVER MY MEN—AND PAID THE PRICE IN REDEMPTION
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The river was supposed to bring light.
Instead, it exposed the darkness in one man’s ambition.

This is the true story of Antoine Lefèvre — a French engineer who arrived in the Ivory Coast believing he could build heaven with concrete, equations, and unwavering pride. But when a violent coup shattered the country around him, every choice he had justified as “progress” was suddenly stripped of its illusions. What remained was a man trapped between duty, survival, and the weight of his own decisions.

As roads closed and famine spread, Antoine watched the workers who trusted him slip into danger he could no longer shield them from. Each compromise — every bribe, every silence, every unanswered plea — carved deeper into his conscience. And in the chaos, the dam he devoted his life to became a mirror reflecting the truth he had buried: he wasn’t building salvation. He was building a monument to himself.

This documentary explores the emotional collapse that followed: nights in abandoned cities, the haunting hum of machines that never turned, the quiet humanity of strangers, and the cell where Antoine finally confronted the man he had become. Through famine, corruption, and the slow erosion of faith, he discovers that redemption isn’t born from success — but from humility.

Told with cinematic intimacy and grounded in human truth, this story asks a single, urgent question:
What remains of a man when everything he built begins to fall?

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