After a tour of Africa with her friend, Swiss tourist Carola (Nina Hoss) meets Lemalian (Jacky Ido) on the bus and decides to hang out with him on her last night on the continent. She stays behind in the African hinterlands in the hopes of finding her true love.
Review from The Globe & Mail:
"There are two stories in The White Masai but, alas, only one verdict. The first tells the familiar tale of a pale Western woman vacationing in a hot Third World country and throwing herself at an even hotter local hunk. The second tries to be a sensitive twist on that theme: Instead of the man vying to marry his way out of poverty, the woman decides to marry her way in, and the movie shifts to become a stranger-in-a-strange-land yarn, where culture clashes play out on a bed of passion. But the clashes are just strung together episodically, like check-points on a journey leading nowhere special, leaving the characters to disappear behind the incidents. We want to know the lovers yet never really get the chance, and the result is a small picture painted on a epic canvas."
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