이슬람 근본주의자들이 장악한 말리의 팀북투. 키단은 핍박받는 주민들과 떨어져 팀북투 근처 사막에서 아내 사티마와 딸 토야, 양치기 이산과 평화롭게 산다. 그러던 어느날, 그는 자신의 소를 죽인 어부를 뜻하지 않게 살해하면서 근본주의자들이 지휘하는 법정에 출두하게 되는데...
Eastern Cape, South Africa. A lonely factory worker, Xolani, takes time off his job to assist during an annual Xhosa circumcision initiation into manhood. In a remote mountain camp that is off limits to women, young men, painted in white ochre, recuperate as they learn the masculine codes of their culture. In this environment of machismo and aggression, Xolani cares for a defiant initiate from Johannesburg, Kwanda, who quickly learns Xolani's best kept secret, that he is in love with another man.
Before immigrating to the West, Abdallah travels to the coastal city of Nouadhibou, Mauritania, to visit his mother. Although he grew up there, Abdallah feels anything but at home in his old neighborhood: He can no longer speak the local dialect, and he wears western clothes that immediately cast him as an outsider. But, as Abdallah spends time with a young boy and an elderly electrician, he can't help but feel a sense of loss for the life he's abandoning.
A documentary about iboga, a medicinal tree root that is the basis of the bwiti religion in Gabon.