In Madagascar, after the municipality tears down his hair salon, Roméo has to leave Tamatave’s high street for the city’s popular districts. He moves into a small shabby shed where he dreams of building a proper salon.

From Michaël Andrianaly comes this intimate portrait of a barber in Madagascar who offers patrons an empathetic ear. The film lends its subject a similar warmth, gradually revealing both his personal challenges and the wider, complex set of issues facing the nation.