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The Gods Must Be Crazy

Xi and his San tribe of Ju'/Hoansi bushmen are living happily in the  Kalahari Desert . One day, a glass  Coca-Cola  bottle is carelessly thrown out of an airplane and falls to Earth unbroken. Initially, Xi's people assume this strange artifact is a "present" from the gods just as they believe plants and animals are and find many uses for it. Unlike other bounties, however, there is only one glass bottle , which causes conflict within the tribe. Consequently, Xi confers with elders and agrees to make a pilgrimage to the edge of the world and dispose of the supposedly cursed thing. Along the way, he encounters diverse people, such as: biologist Andrew Steyn, who is studying the wildlife; Steyn's assistant and mechanic, M'pudi, Kate Thompson, the newly hired village school teacher; a band of  guerrillas led by Sam Boga, who are being pursued by government troops after a failed assassination attempt; and a safari tour guide named Jack Hind. thi