In the mix of everything that happens between the two brothers in In His Shadow, their sister Aissata (Assa Sylla) and her boyfriend Malik (Carl Malapa) get caught in the crosshairs of the drama. In order to protect his sister and boyfriend from whatever Ibrahim has planned, Adamma has to step in.
One of Ibrahim’s trap houses has his worker named Eddy, who keeps Malik in the basement. Eddy has been abusing Malik and sending things to Adamma to blackmail him. Aissata begs Ibrahim to help her get Malik out of there and instead locks her in a room.
Adamma cuts the power to Eddy’s home and ends up rescuing Malik himself. In doing so, he has had enough of Ibrahim and attempts to destroy his whole complex. Once Adamma breaks into Ibrahim’s apartment, he notices it and starts beating him.
The brothers are now going against each other in a brutal fight. Ibrahim tries to strangle Adamma to death, but he manages to get free, and then Adama tries to shoot Ibrahim. Ibrahim did get hurt and ended up dying as Aissata breaks out of her room.
Adamma makes it out of the building unscathed and perfectly fine because he used his blindness as a strength to make it out of there alive. There is a good message throughout this film for Adamma, but it wasn’t strong enough to make that ending effective to drive the meaning home. The connection to his father is there, but it’s at the cost of losing his brother.
