Xala

On the day he marries his third wife, the Senegalese businessman El Hadji Abdou Kader Beye (Thierno Leye) finds he cannot perform, and no doctor or marabout can explain why. Ousmane Sembène watches the man's household and his circle of well-fed associates with a flat, unhurried stare. Beye sits in his suit, his two other wives (Seune Samb, Younousse Sèye) nearby, waiting on a cure he cannot buy.