Robert Gardner's 1974 Rivers of Sand, made with anthropologists Ivo Strecker and Jean Lydall, began the long relationship between the Hamar of Southern Ethiopia and the ethnographic camera. Since then Lydall has made several films in this region, four of them centered on the experiences of Duka, now a married woman whose husband is about to take a second wife. Focusing on the relationships among the open and talkative Duka, the shy and much younger second wife Boro, and their mother-in-law, the filmmakers chronicle the daily life of the family, including Boro's first childbirth. Over time, the women's roles and attitudes shift slightly, and Duka makes it clear that they have become amicable and supportive, in spite of what their husband (or we) may have expected. Asked if she has final words for the film, Duka concludes, "Seeing it, may they understand and like us."