Thiaroye isn't a peaceful fishermen's village anymore... It's from here that people first organized illegal boat departures from Senegal. Most fishermen want to leave. It seems there isn't enough fish left to feed the families... Modou is thirty and attempted twice this perilous journey to Europe where he almost lost his life. Soon he'll try his luck again. And the next generation is ready to follow. Talla, Modou's cousin is an English teacher who has chosen to stay in Senegal to work for the development of his country. He tries to make his students aware of the dangers of the crossing, when most have lost all hope in the future of the country.

Barcelona or Die

While emptying the Parisian apartment of her mother Kyoko, who has just died, Akiko discovers a pile of notebooks specifically left for her. The notebooks are her mother's personal diary, which she started writing in 1964. Laden with the strange inheritance, Akiko decides to take her mother's urn back to Japan to her maternal family, and in the process discovers that she is herself part of an intimate area of her mother's life about which she new nothing. The film travels between two generations of women, from the France of the New Wave to Japan after the atomic bomb. While looking for the right place to disperse her mother's ashes, Akiko goes back in time and tries to find her own place.  Akiko, the heroine of this documentary, refers to her mother the actress and her mother the feminine icon of the 1960s. The film is carried along by this dialog beyond death, just as it is by Kyoko's past and Akiko's destiny.