Four vete­rans of dif­fe­rent war fronts get together on a boat trip around the mouth of River Kwando, in the depths of inner Africa.

33 nati­ons, 33 cul­tu­res, 33 lan­gua­ges and in com­mon: Cre­ole.
The musi­cal group Cobi­ana Jazz used Cre­ole for poli­ti­cal and social rea­sons and with the aim of mobi­li­zing soci­ety to sup­port the strug­gle for freedom.

Their parents came from a for­mer Por­tu­guese colony. The chil­dren were born in Lis­bon, but feel more Cape Ver­dean than Por­tu­guese. They left their childhood neigh­bourhood to move a social hou­sing quarter.

In this film, the fif­ti­eth anni­ver­sary of the inde­pen­dence of Mali beco­mes the basis on which ones ques­ti­ons the role of a story­tel­ler, the one that nar­ra­tes and ine­vi­ta­bly builds and invents the story.

Three direc­tors, three trips and three views. The film­ma­kers ven­ture up in an unk­nown coun­try in search of ins­pi­ring characters.

Richard Pakleppa takes his camera onto the stre­ets of Angola and gather sto­ries of all sec­tors of soci­ety, dis­co­ve­ring how the coun­try has evol­ved since the end of the civil war.