The Beggars' Strike
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In a West African city, the beggars decide to stop begging all at once. They leave the places where they usually sit and withdraw from public view, and their sudden absence unsettles people who have long grown used to seeing them.
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Officials and the comfortable residents of the city struggle to understand what has happened and how to respond. The strike forces them to confront the poverty and inequality they had preferred to ignore, and it sets off a chain of reactions among the powerful and the poor alike.
Sow Fall uses this premise to examine the gap between the city's wealthy and its needy, and to poke fun at the institutions and habits of a society that depends on them.
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