Although the global textile business is booming and its markets seem to be liberated, the industrialized world has tightened its economical and political pressure. Africa faces new possibilities. Since German colonial times - lasting more than one hundred years - the people of Muhenda have lived from cotton. But the changes in the last 20 years have brought poverty and even hunger into the tiny village in Tanzania. In the center of "economic chronicle" is a portrait of the elderly cotton farmer Mzee Gwao Mbogo, whose life author Peter Heller portrayed earlier in his successful 1979 documentary "Mbogos Harves." The film Cotton Money maximizes its impact by showing the contrast between various eras and locations and by looking at different people involved in the cotton and textile business around the globe, thus showing economic interactions. By providing a private story in the historical context, Cotton Money will provoke reflections on the ongoing development and understanding of the problems of global trade.

The story of a village in East Africa

In relation to the world economic market throughout twenty years of liberalization and globalization.