Madame L'Eau

Jean Rouch's film tells the story of three men from Niger who are searching for a way to circumvent the devastating effects of the drought threatening to destroy their crops. They decide to go to the Netherlands in order to study its traditional windmills. They cycle through Holland's flat countryside and draw comparisons between its cows and their hippopotami. They visit universities and speak with specialists and then eventually find a wooden windmill that they would even be able to build themselves.