Sérgio travels to a West Africa metropolis to work for an NGO as an environmental engineer on a road project between the desert and the jungle. There, he becomes entangled in an intimate yet unbalanced relationship with two city dwellers, Diara and Gui. As the neo-colonial dynamics within the expatriate community unravel, this fragile bond becomes his only refuge from an impending collapse into solitude or barbarism.
I Only Rest in the Storm [unabridged version]
O Riso e a Faca [versão integral]
Pedro Pinho
2025
Portugal, France, Brazil, Romania
330’
