Inspired by true life events, in the Oyo Empire in the 1940's, Elesin Oba, the king's chief horseman, succumbs to the lure of beauty and sexual desire on the very evening he is set to die in order to fulfil his lifelong debt of ritual suicide to accompany the dead Alaafin to the realm of the ancestors, he derails from a very important generational and spiritual transaction. This sets in motion a series of catastrophic consequences, in a spell-binding film of emotions, humour, and tragic role reversals that puts ancient beliefs and customs on trial in an ever increasingly post-modern and Western world.
安东尼奥·德·拉·托雷,巴巴拉·莱涅,Joaquín Núñez,Jesús del Moral,塞萨尔·文森特,斯肯,Silvia Acosta,Marta Correa Radwanska,Fabiola Correa Radwanska,Adrián Ledesma,Claudia Vela,Thimbo Samb,Nico Montoya,Carlos Bernardino,Lupe Cano,梅拉尼娅·克鲁兹,Numa Paredes,José Antonio Del Moral,José Lu
简介:Inspired by true life events, in the Oyo Empire in the 1940's, Elesin Oba, the king's chief horseman, succumbs to the lure of beauty and sexual desire on the very evening he is set to die in order to fulfil his lifelong debt of ritual suicide to accompany the dead Alaafin to the realm of the ancestors, he derails from a very important generational and spiritual transaction. This sets in motion a series of catastrophic consequences, in a spell-binding film of emotions, humour, and tragic role reversals that puts ancient beliefs and customs on trial in an ever increasingly post-modern and Western world.