After the Long Rains

Ten-year-old Aisha faces a school assignment requiring her to declare what she wants to be when she grows up, only to discover that her classmates all plan to inherit their parents' businesses or professions. Dreaming bigger, Aisha aspires to travel to Europe and become an actress, devising a scheme to secure work on a fishing boat and sail there. Her mother insists fishing is men's work, but Aisha disagrees, and upon meeting Hassan, a drunken fisherman who offers to teach her the trade, she eagerly grabs the chance.