Awa comes from a modest rural background. She lives in a small village in the middle of the Senegalese countryside. One year, the harvest is bad and her dad decides to send
her to Dakar to earn some money as a maid…Alone in this big and noisy capital city, Awa works day in day out in the house of her masters. “The city, the gateway to modernity…” she had been told. Only lies! The beautiful clothes and shawls, she saw them, but from far away…