Muanza is a woman born in the Kingdom of Kongo and trafficked to Brazil in the 19th century. Waking up nowadays, she finds herself in a time-twisting Rio de Janeiro. Figures from the past and from the present come into her search for her roots across the city’s territory. In this intertwining of times, the film witnesses the life that emerges from the city’s spaces, the gestures of resistance in the face of forced deterritorialization and the affections that sustain relationships of sisterhood.

Presented at the International Film Festival Rotterdam.