Environmental engineer Sérgio travels to Guinea-Bissau to oversee a road construction project linking the desert to the jungle. For the locals, his work is seen as a continuation of colonial practice, while Sérgio – a white Portuguese man in West Africa – sinks ever deeper into an identity crisis. Where does he truly belong? As tensions rise between locals and outsiders, two residents – Gi and Diara, wearing her blond wig – become Sérgio’s only refuge. This ambitious study of neocolonialism is the latest film by one of Portugal’s most compelling contemporary directors, Pedro Pinho, presented in Cannes’ Un Certain Regard program.
