Sound. Wolof language with English subtitles. Contains: LE FRANC (Mambety, 1994, 45 min.); PICC MI (Wade, 1992, 20 min.); FARY L'ANESSE (Wade, 1990, 17 min.).
The film uses the French government’s 50% devaluation of the West African Franc in 1994, and the resulting hardships as the basis for a whimsical commentary on using the lottery for survival. The film’s hero is a penniless musician living in a shanty town, relentlessly harassed by his formidable landlady. He survives only through dreams of playing his congoma which has been confiscated in lieu of back rent. But winning the lottery changes his life.