';
side-area-logo

13,000 LITERS OF WATER AND A FEW DROPS

FICTION | 5 EPISODES | 2024

Luna, Babacar and Antoine are in their second year at the Lycée Sedar Senghor, and it’s the start of the new school year. Born into a middle-class family, Luna is left to fend for herself as her father leaves to work in the United States. She’s a rebellious teenager repeating the second grade. Babacar, an old school friend, a year younger and an excellent student, finds himself in her class. Their complicity is reborn. Antoine, an unmotivated student, lives in the Acacias housing estate, where he is involved in a variety of petty crimes.

Luna and Babacar’s path crosses Antoine’s when a telephone racket is orchestrated by “Le Grizzli”, an 18-year-old kingpin who controls the Acacias housing estate. The cell phone, an object of consumption and covetousness, becomes the starting point for a reflection on the environmental issues linked to its manufacture. In five episodes, through the stories and conflicts of three teenagers, this drama tackles the themes of sustainable development, rare metals, resource depletion and the dark side of the digital transition…

13,000 liters of water and a few drops won the Prix de la création jeunesse 2024 at the Festival Longueur d’ondes in Brest.

AUDIO FICTION AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS

The 13,000 liters of water and a few drops podcast is accompanied by an educational trail for secondary school classes. Students will learn more about environmental issues, the destruction of ecosystems, sustainable consumption and the circular economy.

Download the 13,000 liters of water and a few drops educational trail here.

An audio series written by François Pérache and directed by Alexandre Plank and Tidiane Thiang

With Claire Rappin, Souleymane Sylla, Ulysse Dutilloy, Émilie Incerti Formentini, David Nathason and Matthias Tirant

Music : Anthony Cappeli

Mixing: Martin Delafosse

A project produced by Agence Française de Développement as part of the Réinventer le Monde program

GET

in touch

DISCOVER

all the projects