American Hunger explores the relationship between personal experience and collective histories. Specifically, the relationship between African American modernity and the history from which it has arrived. Oscillating between Philadelphia and New Jersey in the United States, and Cape Coast and Accra in Ghana, American Hunger, takes a direct approach to montage and composition counterpointing visual dialect lyricism with the concerns of narrative film. American fantasies confront African realities. African realities confront America fantasies. African fantasies confront American realities. American realities confront African