The story of how the Western world was first introduced to the musical history of Ethiopia, through the `Ethiopiques' CDs and the mastermind behind them, French music journalist, Francis Falceto.

A key figure of the "Swinging Addis", the golden age of Ethiopian music in the 1960s and 70s, Girma Bèyènè returns to the stage after more than forty years of absence and exile. With the French quintet Akale Wube, he leaves for a series of concerts in France, the United States and Ethiopia.