Also available:.Also available in a video compilation: Tit for Tat.

Director, Ishu Patel ; producer, Ishu Patel ; animation, Ishu Patel ; executive producer, Derek Lamb ; sound editing, Normand Roger ; music, Normand Roger ; re-recording, Hans Peter Strobl.

Recorded 1981.

Set in an unspecified Third World country, this animated film, based on a short story by Enver Carim, suggests that "top priority" means different things to governments and to the governed. A drought-stricken family maintains a long and desperate vigil for a cloud of dust on the horizon signalling the arrival of irrigation pipes and pump. They are rewarded with a military convoy instead. Its top priority is a border war with a neighboring state, not pipes for the life-saving water the family must have.

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Blue Ribbon Award - Category: Human Concerns, 1983 Prize - ex-aequo with ''E'' by Bretislav Pojar, 1982

Description based on online resource; title from title screen (National Film Board of Canada, viewed 2023-08-10).