Why to watch Atlantics despite its evident flaws

Senegalese director Ati Diop's new movied on Netflix, Atlantics (2019) is a really ambitious and unusual first movie starts off great and then seems to lose its way (or lose its audience). The film has something for everyone, in its odd way. It starts off focusing on a strike or walkout on the part of the workers and laborers - no trade unions in Dakar of course - walking off the job because they've gone 3 months without pay; this section of the film is shot in cinema verite style and it looks as if we're set for a realistic expose of working conditions in this impoverished African city (with an astonishing skyscraper on the horizon, for out of proportion to everything else and obviously symbolic of the haves and have-nots). Then we start to follow one of the workers, Souleiman who meets up with his girlfriend, Ada, and he's worried about making money now that he's walked off the job and thinks of taking a boat to Spain to find work - so we're now in a love story and an immigrant/refugee story. Then we see that Ada is engaged to a wealthy man from a local Muslim family - though she obviously does not love him (nor he her) and we're in a Romeo & Juliet story and a class of religious and social classes. Then, on her wedding night, there's a arson attack on her husband's home and the story becomes a police procedural. Then ... the investigating officer gets strangely ill and many of Ada's friends become possessed and wander the streets at night like zombies and threaten the man who's w/held wages - and all the while there are reports of S's return to Dakar but nobody quite seems able to find him, and at this point the movie is virtually impossible to follow and seems to be shooting off the rails. So all told Atlantics is a curiosity and a promising work - worth watching alone for the street scenes in Dakar, which are amazingly sad and sometimes exciting - and as a debut of a director with lots of talent but obviously still trying to find her way; a solid and straightforward plot line would be of help.