Ady, a 13-year-old boy, no longer listens to his father, who raises him alone in the south of France. The father then decides to entrust Ady to his uncle Amadou during his summer vacation, in a rural region of Burkina Faso, his home country. There, at the age of 13, he must become a man, but convinced that he is just on vacation, Ady understands things differently.

The conflict between tradition and modernity, so dear to the different narratives of African cinemas, finds in “Wallay” a contemporary, light and fun approach. Through Ady's experience it is possible to raise awareness of the issues of culture and identity that persist in the African individual in diaspora throughout the world.