One Day I Saw 10,000 Elephants

Angono Mba, an octogenarian Guinean native recalls from his living room, his experiences as a porter for the Spanish filmmaker Manuel Hernández Sanjuán during a two-year documentary expedition (from 1944 to 1946) across colonial Africa, looking for a mysterious lake where a legend says 10.000 elephants could be seen together. From the obsession of the filmmaker to find the lake, the adventures in an unknown country and the special relationship between the two men, their different ways of relating to everything that happens during the expedition and the contradictory forms of expressing their feelings comes this story of fascination for Africa, the past and the collective memory.