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Men and plants have always traveled together in a reciprocal relationship that - for better or for worse - has drastically transformed the world. The mythical cacao tree, native to the Amazon Basin, has spread throughout the world along the narrow equatorial belt. Planted on a large scale using forced labor, the history of cacao has always been linked to the dark side of industrial production and the greed of the mass markets. The director Margarida Cardoso ("The Murmuring Coast", "Yvone Kane", "Kuxa Kanema, the birth of Cinema", "Christmas 71") follows the path of his previous films, exploring and revealing the relations between the brutality of colonial history and its effects in the present.
A clandestine vessel sinks off the coast of a small port town on the Andalusian coast without disturbing the routine. The civil guards sort out the castaways as they do every day, the tourists take advantage of the fine weather to go sailing and to the funfair, and the night trucks head north. The shipwrecked, hallucinated, discover the concrete floor of a Europe that doesn't see them.
A journey that seeks to unravel the history of the region for 600 million years. Included in this report are the evidence of prehistoric animals, the daily struggle against the lack of resources, and the past of the Iberian lynx - the most threatened feline in the world, which still lives in the memory of the inhabitants.
