Zaire, the serpent's cycle

At the heart of the black continent, after thirty years of independence and twenty five years of Mobutu rule, what does the future hold for Zaire? For five weeks, Thierry Michel filmed Kinshasa, the capital city, from every angle. The Kinahsa of beggars, transients and social outcasts. The Kinasha also of bourgeois traders and religious and military dignitaries. Lastly, the Kinahsa of the popular districts, burying their dead, martyrs to dictatorship.