In the 1960s, the newly independent nation of Ghana built a hydroelectric dam at Akosombo, with a new city at its base. Akosombo Township was to be a model city for those who came to build the dam and to work in new industries that would form in response to abundant electrical power and modern Urban infrastructure. What the planners had not anticipated was the “shantytown” that grew in the center of the city to house the people who moved there to provide services for the growing population. Over a tense twenty-year period the residents negotiated with VRA city managers, who considered their area an eyesore, to find a fair solution and to become legitimate residents of Akosombo. The film weaves a web of contrasting accounts of the struggle by juxtaposing the personal recollections of residents, officials, and city planners. The film weaves a web of contrasting accounts of the struggle. The story of Akosombo township sheds light on how Ghanaians persevere to reach compromises between competing interests along the road to transforming their world.