Two men from two different cultures clash in the dust of the former Belgian colony, the Democratic republic of Congo. Lao Yang, the Logistics Manager, is Chinese. Eddy, his inter- preter, is Congolese and speaks fluent Mandarin. Both of them work for a Chinese mining company repai- ring the road between Kolwezi and Lubumbashi, 300 kilometres long. Deliveries dry up and the work grinds to a halt. Through the trials and tribulations of the worksite, Bram Van Paesschen captures with deli- cious virtuosity the sometimes cruel comedy of relations between new conquerors and previously colonised people.

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