Borom Sarret

Borom Sarret (Wolof name for “wagoner”) is the story of a poor cart driver who loses almost everything he owns in a single day. He offers people rides into town, and only sometimes do they pay him the fare. He gets confronted by a rich customer demanding to be taken to a suburb where horse driven carts are prohibited and inevitably the police stop him and confiscate his cart. This portrait of a working man recalls neorealist classics such as Bicycle Thieves and marked the arrival of a major new talent.