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A child helps a woman who seeks her husband all over Mozambique. When they finally find him, the child is killed.
Lucy 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. Lucy’s musical virtuosity attracts the attention of the hospital nurses. Rosa, an envangelical priest of “Rádio Moçambique”, goes to the hospital to listen to Lucy’s song. Lucy takes this opportunity to run away from the hospital. Alone in the big city, with nothing else besides the pieces of her own bed, and struggling to find Hanic, Lucy looks for the radio’s head office. Rosa confesses to Lucy that she’s nothing else but her chauffeur’s (Muxanga) prisoner. Lucy, with the help of Muxanga finds Hanic. Muxanga tries to terrorize Lucy, but little Hanic stands up to his mother and defeats Muxanga. Lucy and Hanic travel all over Mozambique in search of Pak. They cross the river heading the war. In the Infernal Club Muxanga kills Hanic. Pak shows up and kills Muxanga and a bird appears in place of Hanic’s heart.

Credits

Director
João Viana
Screenwriter
João Viana
Producer
François D'Artemare, João Viana
Production Company
Les Films de l'Après-Midi
Cast
Ernania Manuel ; Pack Ndjamena ; Hanic Corio ; Jessica Laimo ; Rafina Masirene ; Janeth Mutemba

About the Director

João Viana
João Viana has worked in the areas of production, sound, storyboarding, direction and screenwriting, and has collaborated with directors Jean-Claude Biette, César Monteiro, Manoel de Oliveira and Werner Schroeter. He has directed his own films since 2004, beginning with ‘A Piscina’, which screened in competition at the Venice International Film Festival and is the Portuguese short fiction film tha
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