The Well follows Merem Tahar, a 27-year-old Toubou activist and law student, as she returns to her homeland in northern Chad with a stubborn plan: to dig the first solar-powered well and, around it, grow a cooperative farm run by the women of her community.
This is not a story about aid; it's a story about agency. At its heart is a question: what does environmental justice look like when it is imagined and led by the people most affected?