In 1894, French Captain Alfred Dreyfus is wrongfully convicted of treason and sentenced to life imprisonment at Devil's Island.

In 2013 and 2017, the Bernese documentary duo Peter Guyer and Thomas Burckhalter travels to Ghana, where rap is bursting with ideas and cheeky scenarios for the future in which money is collected in the streets of Accra for impoverished America. Pleasure in nonsense, political provocation and frustration over stagnation go hand in hand in the musical, cinematic and verbal interventions of the Fokn Boys, the young pop queen Adooma, the rapper Akan and his colleagues, breaking out of post-colonial vicious circles and the vision of a self-confident new Africa form the common tenor, impressions from everyday life in the pulsating metropolis serve as the visual beat: an ear- and eye-opener. (afu)