Sergio travels to a metropolis in West Africa to work for an NGO as an environmental engineer on a road project between the desert and the forest. There, he becomes entangled in an intimate yet unbalanced relationship with two inhabitants of the city, Diara and Gui. As neo-colonial dynamics among the expatriate community unravel, this fragile bond becomes his only refuge from an impending collapse into solitude or barbarism.
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Pedro Pinho
Director
Pedro Pinho
Writer
Pierre Menahem
Producer
Filipa Reis
Producer
Juliette Lepoutre
Producer
Tatiana Leite
Producer
Radu Stancu
Producer
Ioana Lascăr
Producer
Tiago Hespanha
Producer
Ivo Lopes Araújo
Director of Photography
Carpotxa
Original Music Composer
Mazulu
Original Music Composer
Cláudia Rita Oliveira
Editor
Pedro Pinho
Editor
Karen Akerman
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