Kukurantumi treats a formidable theme--the erosion of traditional values in a modernizing country--in an upbeat, engaging tale that takes place, fittingly, on the road connecting a rural village to the Ghanaian capital of Accra. Addey is a jitney driver from the village of Kukurantumi, in local dialect “the place where everything is too heavy to pick up.” When his jitney breaks down, he goes to great lengths to secure funds for a new one, including attempting to pawn off his daughter in marriage to a wealthy merchant. In a land where public transportation is in the hands of private entrepreneurs, a vehicle represents mobility, freedom, and, for many like Addey, also a certain kind of servitude. For without his jitney, he would have to return to “the place where everything is to heavy to pick up” and eke out a living from the soil, far from the lights of Accra that entice him. Featured in the Museum of Modern Art's New Directors 1984, Kukurantumi--The Road to Accra was shot on location in Ghana by a Ghanaian and German crew and is the first feature of Ghanaian director King Ampaw, a German film school graduate.