This film is about a migrant worker who arrives in a village looking for a job. There is work but not for everyone and the employers don’t always pay on time. Whether one has a job or not depends upon how dispensable one is or isn’t and also how adaptable one is to the work environment. Those who become unemployed eventually become discouraged and leave the village looking for better fortune elsewhere. The newcomer in question sticks around long enough to find a job and fall in love with a woman whose husband had left to look for work abroad. How he eventually takes the place of the absent husband is a twist of fate that works very well in this ethnographic film marked by beautiful cinematography.