"The desire to film Soloko, life, life on earth, as well as the desire to travel…. All the more so because the year 2000 is nearly upon us and nothing will have changed for the better, you know that better than I do…." On the eve of the year 2000, French-based Mau-ritanian director Abderrahmane Sissako returns to Sokolo, a small village in Mali, to see his father. He meets Nana, a young girl who is also passing through. He wanders the streets, the squares, the post, the fields. It's the beginning of meditation on the ever-turbulent relations between Africa and Europe as village life goes on...