Florent de La Tullaye

Ricky has a dream: to make Staff Benda Bilili the best band in Congo Kinshasa. Roger, a street child, more than ever wants to join these stars of the ghetto, who get around in customized tricycles. Together, they must avoid the pitfalls of the street, stay united and find the force to hope in music. For six years, from the first rehearsals to their triumph in international festivals, BENDA BILILI! (“beyond appearances”) is the story of this dream come reality.

In Kinshasa, "Zagué" saturates the sound of the working class neighborhoods, broadcast by the DJs who hold their broadcasting booths in the street and thus indicate, through sound, the borders of the gang territories. Sitos, who has just produced a new track, has to visit them to make known his last sound. We follow him in the corridors of the city, in search of a new recognition: not only from the thugs, but now from the general public.

The ghettos of Kinshasa - the devastated capital of a country politically and economically adrift - are filled with many gifted; yet impoverished musicians.

In the middle of the Rainforest, some young pygmy mothers - dubbed "Walés" - live a secluded life with their newborns. A photographer tries to unravel the mystery of this longstanding tradition.