Selected for the Toronto Film Festival. Premiere in Spain
Jawu lives humbly with his son in the floating slum of Agbojedo, in Lagos. Hearing rumours about the government’s plans to destroy his community, he discovers a corrupt politician hiding money. Seeing an opportunity, he decides to take them without knowing that he is about to face an even bigger challenge.
The debut film by the Agbajowo Collective is a heart-rending cry from the depths of Lagos, the largest city in Africa, which denounces the voracity of development and the violence of forced evictions. Through a hybrid narrative that combines thriller, natural actors and magical realism, the film exposes social injustice and institutional violence. A song to resistance and a fierce criticism of a development model that expels the most vulnerable.
