The Mayor
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.
Minister Kebe
Do cineasta senegalês Ousmane Sembene, Xala conta a história de um corrupto funcionário público, El Hadji, que casa-se com a sua terceira esposa usando fundos roubados. Quando El Hadji realiza seu casamento, descobre que foi almaldiçoado com a impotência, maldição essa conhecida como "xala". O contexto histórico acontece depois da conquista da independência do Senegal, e há óbvios significados metafóricos para a impotência de El Hadji.
Following a misunderstanding, a traveler is mistaken for an important official on an inspection tour. Nothing will be spared to coax him into turning a blind eye to the prevarications: embezzlement, exactions of all kinds practiced by the local notables.
Ibrahim Dieng
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.
