City of Contrasts

A fictional documentary that portrays the city of Dakar Senegal as we hear the conversation between a Senegalese man the director Djibril Diop Mambéty and a French woman Inge Hirschnitz As we travel through the city in a picturesque horse drawn wagon we chaotically rush into this and that popular neighborhood of the capital discovering contrast after contrast A small African community waiting at the Churchs door Muslims praying on the sidewalk the Rococo architecture of the Government buildings the modest stores of the craftsmen near the main market