Mami Wata Surf - Luck is Alive

The film tells the story of a young man in Dakar - a surfer who is both an animist and a Muslim. Our protagonist longs to surf, and believes that luck will take him to the ocean. He becomes obsessed with dice, the symbol of the luck that will take him there. And indeed, by its force, he makes his way to the sea. The surfer plunges into the water, is captured (or rescued) with Mami Wata, the spirit of the ocean, and is transformed. He emerges as a surfer, twice transfigured by the spirit of luck and of the ocean itself.