Country:Mali

Director:Abdoulaye Ascofare

Summary:

In Abdoulaye Ascofare’s film, the parallel universe consists in the singularity of the intimate world of one Songhai woman who must battle the insurmountable elements that are in regular and threatening orbit around her. Ascofare traces twenty four hours of the woman’s activity which acts as a simple view of a lifetime and a complex image of a particular and essential place in an intricate cosmos. She is a mother of three who struggles to support her family in the face of her husband’s arrest on trumped-up charges.