A portrait of Lorang, the patriarch of a large homestead among the seminomadic Turkana of north-western Kenya. At the time the film was made, most Turkana (including Lorang’s own son) saw their way of life continuing unchanged into the future. Lorang, however, thought otherwise, for he had been conscripted into the King’s African Rifles and seen something of the outside world. Upon returning to Turkana, he had had to struggle to catch up to men of his own age in wealth and seniority. This is a study of a man who has come to see his society as vulnerable und whose traditional role in it has been shaped by that realization.
