Guled and Nasra are a happy couple living just outside Djibouti with their teenage son Mahad. Guled has a poorly paid job as a graveyard digger. When Nasra becomes ill and is told that she needs a kidney transplant to survive, the family's situation becomes severe: the operation costs as much as Guled earns in a year. How will he raise the money and at the same time keep the family together?

Khadar Ayderus Ahmed (b. 1981), is a Finnish-Somali director and writer. About the film, he says:

Marthasykkeltiurbil (2021, 5 min) is a black and white silent film accompanied by a four-handed composition for church organ. One morning, Martha bikes to work from the cabin she lives in. As she cycles down the steep slopes towards town, a cabin tourist drives past her on the narrow gravel road. A capercaillie gets startled and flies into her front wheel.

Visual artist Lars Monrad Vaage works mainly with painting, drawing and film. A recurring motive in his works is the defiance of the seemingly invincible forces we are limited by.