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50-year-old Lilia talks about her mental trauma due to her parents’ constant quarrels during childhood, while her mother justifies her lack of love with the rigid frames of a totalitarian society.
After gaining independence in the early 1960s, the young African nations are greeted by an unexpected and enigmatic friend from a far-off continent: Soviet parliamentarians arrive in an endless stream, paying visits to Africa’s new leaders.
An experimental melodrama inspired by the films of amateur filmmaker Joan Thurber Baldwin made in the 1950s and by autobiographical references.
A quest’s story brings together both archives and fiction with rare stylistic refinement and humor.