Mamadu Baio

Après trente ans d'exil, Baio accepte de revenir en Guinée-Bissau à la demande de sa fille. Fatu tient à ce que son père l'accompagne le jour de son mariage. Elle va épouser Idrissa, célèbre chanteur des Supercamarimba. La cérémonie doit se dérouler à Tabatô, le village des griots, peuple de musiciens. Mais lorsque Baio retrouve les lieux de son passé, les souvenirs de la guerre d'indépendance remontent à la surface. Pour en finir avec la guerre et ses fantômes, Idrissa décide de mener une dernière bataille...

In mid-summer 2011, Paulo Carneiro and set out as assistant director for a film crew working on a project on the west African coast. There he unexpectedly ended up shooting his own film, a documentary report about a sinking ship near the coast of Guinea-Bissau on which he was a passenger. The digital camera records the growing panic on the ship after it has gotten stuck in the ocean in an oppressive nighttime atmosphere. In shaky interview footage, we see passengers move from an initial apathy to nervous anxiety, and from there fluidly to a fear for their lives. The growing tension on board is reflected in the film's ever quickening tempo.

Ernania is hospitalized in a psychiatric hospital in Mozambique. She dreams about her little son, Hanic, and her husband, Pak, who is a soldier of the war. In the meantime, a quirky musical instrument plays: her own bed. Ernania’s musical virtuosity, attracts the attention of the hospital nurses. One day, her song is played in a radio program and Rosa, an evangelical priest of “Rádio Moçambique”, goes to the hospital to listen to Ernania’s song. Ernania takes the priest’s visit as an opportunity to run away from the hospital.