A college graduate returns to his Senegalese fishing village, enters politics, and takes two wives.

A disabled Senegalese girl, Sili, decides to do a “boy’s job” and starts selling newspapers on the streets of Dakar. Sili does a great job, but the boys are not happy. The story tells her battle of daring to imagine what she can be and not caring about what anyone else thinks.

Documentary footage of a Women’s Conference in Senegal

Dramaan is the most popular man in Colobane, but when a woman from his past, now exorbitantly wealthy, returns to the town, things begin to change.

A penniless, fast-thinking musician buys a lottery ticket which he glues to his back door, in hopes of eventually retrieving his instrument from his exasperating landlady. The ticket wins, and our hero begins a harrowing odyssey throughout his shanty town, carrying the door on his shoulder all the time.

Burial of a Christian political activist in a Muslim cemetery forces a conflict imbued with religious fervor.