France? Nothing good comes of it.
The eccentric spatial and temporal shifts crystallize essentially unresolvable tensions between rural traditions and urban anomie.
Essential viewing. I can also recommend reading Alexander Fischer's article Reclaiming Josephine Baker in the Filmic Ethnomusicology of Djibril Diop Mambéty after watching this.
Synopsis: Mory, a cowherd, and Anta, a university student, try to make money in order to go to Paris and leave their boring past behind.