Crude map of Africa. A river is marked in the north western region of the map, along with the words ‘The Dogon People’ followed by the words ‘In the Mali Highlands’. A village of thatched huts. A man walks through a crowd of goats. Traditional music plays in the background. The man walks along a parched hillside. He moves aside a doorway fashioned from thin branches or possibly tall, thick grass. He enters a garden and pulls a piece of cotton from one of a number of plants growing in the middle of the garden. He proceeds to collect cotton from other plants. Close up of his hands removing excess pieces of the plant from the cotton. He returns to the village and picks up a basket. He fills this basket with cotton from his satchel. He pours the cotton onto a stone table.