The story of an everyday catastrophe on the Somali coast unfolds in captivating black and white. While a son cares for his dying father, the surrounding countryside is depopulated. All the neighbours are in the process of fleeing. For several decades, European intermediaries have illegally dumped toxic waste into the sea at the Horn of Africa. Since the earthquake that shook the region in 2004 and the tsunami that followed, the Somali coast has been contaminated.