罗京（李秀景 饰）曾是衔着金汤匙出生的千金大小姐，却因为家道中落而沦为平民，如今的她正在坚强的渐渐适应不再奢华的平凡生活，个性也在磨砺之中变得愈加的温润。阿宇（池贤宇 饰）一直梦想着能够成为一名音乐人，而他的另一个梦想则是希望深爱的罗京能够获得幸福，深深的埋藏在心底的这两个梦想，到底哪一个能够率先实现呢？ 罗京即将和父母一起移民国外，眼看着自己未能生根发芽的爱恋就这样泡了汤，阿宇感到十分的郁闷。同样郁闷的还有感情之路一直不顺利的允儿，于是他们决定开一家专门帮助别人解决恋爱苦恼的恋爱事务所。
The film accompanies Magaye Niyang, a star of Touki-Bouki, a 1972 classic directed by her own uncle Djibril Diop. Following this path, we are witness of Niyang travel to a special screening of the film, which has a public release in his old town. Niyang seems detached and with a heavy longing from the past, and therefore, the film debris permeates everything with unescapable sorrow and fascination. Diop film is, first and foremost, a nostalgic travel through memory, time and recreation. It is also a watermark in contemporary experimental documentary, a very intimate portrait of a lost long journey through the past that isn’t returning anymore, a detachment of rejected fame, recognition and connection which is heavily grounded on a legacy that belongs to the past, and that connects directly to a country (Senegal) and its heritage, which is sometimes feel excruciating for the old ones (a testimony such as the taxi scene in the film, where the cab driver longs for changes, and claims that the old generation had done nothing for that). Mille Soleils (A Thousand Suns) and, in itself, Mati Diop’s crucial talent, should be a point of reference into what could easily be one of the most interesting proposals of hybrid documentary cinema which has come from France, and which deals with a strong African heritage. Since 35 Rhums, where she proved her actress talent, Diop seems like a true promise for the following years of cinema.
Somewhere on the internet is a land where communities pretend to live out a survivalist fiction. The avatars of the directors of Knit’s Island spent 963 hours there, creating a fascinating film resulting from their encounter with these communities. The “players” reveal their fears and fantasies, in an at times unsettling blurring of the real and the virtual.
