Countless automobiles, their best years behind them, are imported into the West African republic of Benin. But the locals have a saying, "One never really dies in Benin," and this applies to cars as well. Divine Body follows the fortunes of an old Peugeot as it passes from one owner to the next: Simon, living the sheltered life of an overseas development worker; his cook Joseph, who uses the car as an illicit taxi; and Simonet, a sculptor commissioned by the wise men of a hamlet to sculpt the voodoo god of night watchmen. In a driving tour through the heart of Benin, Belgian-born director Dominique Loreau captures a country in transition between the modern, the mechanical, and the mythical.