Dakar, between the skeletons of futuristic luxury buildings and the reality of construction workers looking for jobs. Ada is to marry the wealthy Omar, but she is haunted by her lover Souleiman, an unpaid construction worker who lost his life at sea when crossing the Atlantic together with other economic refugees. Captivating and hypnotic, Mati Diop’s film tells the stories of the women who stayed: the mothers, sisters, and lovers of those who were looking for work and cheated of their wages and whose attempts at migration were thwarted by the disastrous asymmetry of global migration policy. They have not departed this world peacefully and their ghosts haunt the living. In an act of rebellion, the grieving women stand up against this massive injustice and demand that those whose hunger for power is responsible for the growing social injustice be held accountable. (dp)