A busy train full of passengers rolls through Tanzania from the capitol to the provinces for three long days and nights. In third class, we meet a charismatic Masai named Isaya and his grandson William, who earns a living in the city’s show business, something his grandfather does not understand. In second class, we meet the entrepreneur Rukia, who was forced to marry as a young girl and whose husband later left her with her young son. She has since mustered the courage to make a fresh start as a bar owner. In the front of the train, where the first class passengers sit, we encounter the enigmatic voice of Peter, who used to be a gangster but is now a priest and who talks to his fellow travelers about their worries, whether they want or not.
This is Tanzania in transit. As the train moves along through the dusty landscape, the film sketches a picture not only of poverty, prejudice, and hostility against the Masai, but also of social change, new beginnings and a hopeful eye on the future, to wherever this journey is going.
