Adapted from Friedrich Durrenmatt's play The Visit, Hyenas follows a wealthy woman who returns to her home village and offers its residents a fortune in exchange for killing the man who abandoned her decades earlier, using the story as a satire of Senegal's post-colonial economy bending to Western money.
Fun fact: The score was composed by Mambety's own brother, Wasis Diop, and it was Mambety's second and final full-length feature.