In a popular suburb of Dakar, workers on the construction site of a futuristic tower, without pay for months, decide to leave the country by the ocean for a better future. Among them is Suleiman, the lover of Ada, promised to another.
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Writers:
Mati Diop (screenplay by), Olivier Demangel (screenplay by)
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Fleeing across the sea from Africa as refugees to Spain. Things are hard for the young as director Diop tackles current problems like unemployment, abuse of local workers (unpaid wages by the exploiting rich) and arranged marriages. The protagonist is a young girl who is in love with a local but forced to marry a rich man she does not love.
Trouble is that the one she loves takes off in a raft for Spain leaving her to her own devices. Director Diop…
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