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A character whispered in Wolof, then French: "Ma mère est morte. Mais ce n’est pas triste."

She never did find out if the man on the cliff jumped.

Maya rewound. No. The audio clearly said "dead" and "not sad." But the subtitle contradicted it. She checked her settings. Everything was fine. She watched on. Another line: "Je te pardonne."

Maya had downloaded Echoes of Mal Adoum for one reason: the description promised "a revolutionary ambiguity of focus." It was an experimental Senegalese film from 1974, recently restored. The only version she could find came with English subtitles by a translator listed only as "Anon."

The subtitle appeared, line by line: