玫勒是一个酒吧歌手，她的丈夫查卡没有工作，两个人的关系岌岌可危……
在他们与其他家庭共用的院子里设立着一个法庭。非洲社会的几个代表对世界银行和国际货币基金(FMI)提起诉讼，他们认为，这些人是对非洲造成巨大伤害的惨剧的罪魁祸首。在辩护和证词中，院子里的生活在继续。
而查卡似乎对非洲人要重申自己权力的愿望漠不关心……

　　古老广袤的非洲大陆，千百年流传着一个极其残酷的习俗，这里的女孩长到一定年龄时就要接受割礼。所谓割礼，即割除女性部分或者全部的阴核以及小阴唇，再用一般针线或者荆棘缝合。全程没有任何麻醉和消毒措施，受礼者痛苦至极，且要承受着破伤风感染、艾滋病传染甚至丧命的危险。 　　克里（Fatoumata Coulibaly 饰）是一位聪明贤良的女性，她对年轻时接受割礼的痛苦经历记忆犹新，而且在接下来的几十年里，她无时无刻不在承受着伤口为精神和肉体带来的双重折磨。克里不愿女儿再承受这般磨难，于是不顾一切阻止女儿接受割礼。她的举动遭到村里人的质疑和职责，来自周遭的压力越来越大……

Inspired by the book of Genesis, this film tells the power struggle between two families: a clan of herders led by Jacob and another clan of hunters fronted by his brother Esau. Caught in the crossfire is their cousin, Hamor and his tribe of farmers.

Faro is a real goddess of a real tribe (the Bamana) in the West African country of Mali. In a landlocked country like Mali, covered in part by the Sahara Desert, water is a resource that can never be taken for granted. The Bamana village in Faro: Goddess of the Waters not only sits on a riverbank, but also depends for much of its food on fish from the river. Faro is the dominant character in this film, the unseen force for which all action takes place. (c) Ferdy on Films [Marilyn Ferdinand]