Trapped in a cycle of colonial exploitation, our forgotten hero Blimundo braves the exhausted landscape of his island and finds a way to release himself from isolation.
The life and death of a wind pump, characteristic element of the agricultural landscape of the Cape Verde archipelago, which belongs to the arid zone of the Sahel. A metaphor of secular resistance against drought.
An experimental short by director Tambla Almeida, the cityscape is backgroud to accounts of giving birth or "giving light" as the portuguese expression.
