During a robbery at a petrol station in town, one of the accomplices is shot dead. The other, Samba Traoré, flees with the loot: a suitcase full of banknotes. After years away, he returns to his native village. Life has gone on as usual, and Saratou is as beautiful as he remembers her. Director Idrissa Ouedraogo paints a portrait of a man haunted by his past, trying to rebuild his life and start afresh. But past mistakes never stay buried for long.

“Mr. Ouedraogo permits nothing to come between his audience and the basic, universal matters his films consider. A true and brilliant Minimalist, he tells his stories with extraordinary humanity and without embellishment. Mr. Ouedraogo sustains his gentle, enveloping films with little more than the clarifying honesty of his vision” -Janet Maslin, The New York Times.