Scene one: An old man swims in a pool with a young man. Scene two: As the old and young man walk around the swimming pool, we learn one is the father (a former swimming champion) and the other is the son, and also that both work at a four-star hotel. Scene three: As the father erotically eats slices of watermelon with his wife in a living room, we learn from the TV that the country is in a state of war—government forces against rebel forces. Scene four: As the father hangs out with a cook, we learn that the hotel was recently privatized and is now owned by a Chinese businesswoman, Ms. Wang. Scene five: In the hotel’s business office, surplus workers are sequentially fired. All of this and more comes together to make the most important African film since Djibril Diop Mambéty's Hyènes. by Charles Mudede