60多岁的Adam是前游泳冠军,现在恩贾梅纳一家豪华酒店担任救生员。酒店被中国商人收购之后,Adam就必须把职位让给他的儿子Abdel。他一时难以接受这种社会地位的落差。与此同时,这个国家遭受内战摧残和叛军的威胁。作为应对,政府要求人民为战争出力,强制征收钱财或征募适龄的儿童上战场。亚当就是因此被区长官纠缠,要求他贡献钱财或孩子。但是Adam没有钱,只有儿子…… Present-day Chad. Adam, sixty something, a former swimming champion...
In EXPECTATIONS, Chadian director Mahamet-Saleh Haroun reunites withactor Youssouf Djaoro from Haroun's 2006 film DARATT. The film follows Moussa,a man attempting to cross the desert to escape his debts only to return to his villagedefeated and dejec...