Afrika am Rhein

A now-rich woman returns to her poor desert hometown to propose a deal to the populace: her fortune, in exchange for the death of the man who years earlier abandoned her and left her with his child.

A team of friends recover heavy metal drums used to transport tar. After having cleaned out the drums with intense heat, they work industriously to make metal plates which, when cut and assembled, will finally become impressive trunks.

In Africa, small jobs survive as resistance to the invasion of consumer goods. In compiling five shorts directed by the Senegalese documentary filmmaker, the film details the stages of making handicrafts from garbage dumped at landfills.