Shooting on 16mm film in Mozambique, director Ico Costa explores the textures of human behaviour as he follows young men who wonder what lies beyond their immediate surroundings. In the fragments of conversations captured in the Maputo market, a recording studio and on coconut trees, we find daily routines and tedium lead to chit-chat on desire, money and hope. In the interplay between performance and document, poetry emerges from fleeting everyday moments.

In Buenos Aires, Exe (25) loses his
job and doesn’t want to look yet for another. His neighbourhood and friends are looking so strange as common to him. On the Internet he discovers Alf, a boy from Africa, who also has a sad job. Later, Alf also follows another guy, Archie, who escapes to the jungle. In the exotic context of the jungle’s vegetation, Archie follows the path of some ants to their nest. One of them goes out and on her path she founds Canh, a Philipinne guy who’s sitting over a big dirt mountain, he then goes down to his strange and beautiful city, and he also has a sad job.