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.
布莱特妮·奥格拉迪,詹姆斯·莫罗西尼,阿莉西娅·戴柏南·凯里,德文·特雷尔,嘉文·莱特伍德,蕾娜·哈迪斯蒂,妮娜·布隆加登,大卫·汤普森,麦蒂森·达文波特,Myhraliza Aala,Tyrone J. Criss,A. Brian Daniels,Francisco Diego Garcia,Tommy Hestmark,Timothy Krabill,Jesaar Landavaso,海莉·基娜·劳腾巴赫,达娜·米利肯,John Michael Murphey,阿里·诺德利
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.