With music by Mathieu Vanasse and uncompromising lyrics, Virginie Egger's Un pas uses a photomontage technique evoking glossy media images to illustrate the appalling fate of Africa, strangled not only by AIDS but by the greed of Western pharmaceutical companies.
The story follows the two sisters Melissa and Emily, the former who accidentally killed her husband Alan and the latter who agrees to help her bury her husband in the desert.
In Santiago, Chile, the schoolteacher Luisa proposes a debate about sex with the parents of her students with the intention of giving classes about sex education to the youngsters.
Fumiya, a beautiful boy with no fixed address, sells his body to random men in the park. One day, he is in trouble but is saved by a middle-aged university professor, who sets him on a new life.