Invited into a Brussels salon by its Cameroonian proprietor, filmmaker Rosine Mbakam documents the day-to-day lives and concerns of immigrant West African women in a space they can call their own.
Like most immigrants in Paris, Sidi, a Mauritanian worker, is employed to do the most difficult and dangerous jobs. He and his comrades are exploited systematically by their French employers, and confronted with poor housing conditions, few prospects for meaningful employment, racism, and bureaucracy. Director Sidney Sokhona portrays Sidi himself, mixing documentary with surreal fiction to depict a rent strike at the hostel where he lived with hundreds of other immigrants.
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