In The Women Who Smile, the first film in the trilogy, three Hamar women in Ethiopia reflect on marriage and sex in their culture from the perspectives of different generations. Two Girls Go Hunting is "a lovely, deeply felt sequel to the splendid The Women Who Smile. ...(T)his film focuses in on two young Ethiopian women, Duka and Gardi, whose close friendship and independence are sacrificed when they're married off into other villages....The unseen narrator in Two Girls may chronicle the nuptial rituals, but the analysis is left to the African women themselves. 'Marriage,' Duka soberly explains in one scene, 'is a trap....They build a house and put you in it.'"(Manohla Dargis, Village Voice)