As much of the world grappled with the implications of the Vietnam War, Sarah Maldoror made a film to bring attention to the ongoing Angolan War of Independence to liberate the nation from the repressive Portugese colonial government. When the secret police arrest a mild-mannered worker for connections to the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola, his wife travels all over the region from bureaucrat to bureaucrat and jail to jail in search of him. While Maldoror is unwavering in showing why the people need deliverance from this corrupt government, she also never loses sight of exactly who is on the front lines of the years of turmoil that come with revolution.
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