In Saint-Etienne (France), inside the cleanroom of the Pôle Optique, a place renowned for excellence in the field of scientific achievement, two men are working on the component of a laser device intended for therapeutic purposes. Dressed in antistatic garments, their slow and precise movements within this sterile space create a strange, esoteric choreography in the eyes of the beholder.

Here we are, in Dr Moussa Maman's surgery. The room is basic, the space cramped: a few chairs, a plain rug on the floor to be used as a bed. The characters: Dr Maman, his assistant and a few patients who come by, including a witch doctor. Palustrean fevers and anguished throats, the prescriptions of Doctor Maman differ.

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