This was a wonderful, nuanced performance by the three principal actors in this drama. We follow their trajectory and adaptation as they arrive and settle in New York. Mother and daughter have been apart from their husband/father for 17 years as he worked in NYC. They had fled their homeland in Angola for Dars es Salaam in Tanzania.
They try to adjust to the enormous differences that have developed over this long time period.
This could easily have evolved into an over-extended melodrama - but instead we witness characters interacting and overcoming each other's short-comings.
They try to adjust to the enormous differences that have developed over this long time period.
This could easily have evolved into an over-extended melodrama - but instead we witness characters interacting and overcoming each other's short-comings.