In a dystopian future, the Brazilian government decrees a measure that forces black citizens to migrate to Africa in an attempt to return to their origins. Seeing themselves in the center of terror, two cousins take refuge in an apartment, where they debate social and racial issues, and share the same yearning for the change of country.
Acting
Taís Araújo's controlled rage could power a city.
Direction
Lázaro Ramos turns one apartment into an entire world collapsing.
Writing
Dialogue that weaponizes politeness against itself.
Director
Lázaro Ramos
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The film's 'return to Africa' policy directly mirrors real 19th-century Brazilian back-to-Africa movements, twisted into nightmare.
Lázaro Ramos specifically cast Alfred Enoch—a British-Brazilian actor—to embody the diasporic fracture of belonging nowhere fully.
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