A forty-year-old woman refuses to give into the stigma of unwed motherhood and climbs the ladder of success in a male-dominated field.

A money order from a relative in Paris throws the life of a Senegalese family man out of order. He deals with corruption, greed, problematic family members, the locals and the changing from his traditional way of living to a more modern one.

A corrupt politician is cursed with impotence on the night of his third wedding after embezzling 100 tons of rice.

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.

The film narrates the adventures of Badou Boy, a cheeky young man, as he travels through the streets of Dakar on the bus. Humorous depictions of the passengers, the police, whom they call “black dragon” in hot pursuit… A chronicle of everyday life in Dakar.

A somewhat-humorous look at the city of Dakar, its people, architecture, politics, social behavior, and even the white French tourists.