The distinguished Ethiopian film-maker Haile Gerima journeys from his birthplace to Addis Ababa in the company of Ryszard Kapuscinski, a Polish writer who covered African affairs for 30 years on behalf of the Polish Press Agency, and whose book about Haile Selassie, The Emperor, forms a backcloth to their pilgrimage. Poland, Kapuscinski points out, "was also colonised", making his identification with Africa, and Ethiopia in particular, that much sharper. Africa is now on a difficult and often bloody journey from colonial rule to democracy, and it is Gerima's aim to explore this journey in the lives and words of ordinary people.