On an empty road in the middle of the night, Shula stumbles across the body of her uncle. As funeral proceedings begin around them, she and her cousins bring to light the buried secrets of their middle-class Zambian family.

“Nyoni’s and cinematographer David Gallego’s images are made even more dreamlike by the near-perpetual night, each moment lit by the sapphire blue of the moon, where the light itself seems to dance along each surface like billowing silk.” ~ Leila Latif, BFI

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