This film follows the fortunes of an old Peugeot off-loaded in Cotonou, Benin. As it changes hands, we glimpse into the lives of its successive owners: starting with Simon, lving the sheltered life of an overseas development worker; his cook Joseph, who milks the car as an illicit taxi; and the garage mechanics, who try to breathe new life into it every time it breaks down… Then one day the car is left for junk by the roadside. And a smithy and sculptor named Simonet salvages bits and pieces to produce the figure of Agbo – the voodoo god of « night watchmen » – a task set him by the wise men of the hamlet of Ouassa. So it is that, after a long journey in a dugout canoe through the lagoons of Benin, the sculpture assumes its role as the protecting fetish of the people of Ouassa.