The Murmuring Coast

At the end of the 60s Evita arrives in the Portuguese colony of Mozambique to marry Luís, a mathematics student doing his military service there. Evita soon realizes that Luís has changed, and in the turmoil of the war he has transformed himself into a pale imitation of his commanding officer, Forza Leal. The men lead a major military offensive in the north of the country. Evita is left alone and, desperate to understand what has changed Luís, seeks the company of Helena, Forza Leal’s wife. Helena, submissive and humiliated, is a prisoner in her own house where she is fulfilling a promise. And it is she who shows Luís’s darkest side to Evita as she tries to draw her into an ambiguous relationship of destruction and death. Lost in an alien world, Evita becomes tangled in a web of sordid violence, which has neither glory nor honour. The violence of a colonial age drawing to its end. A period of war, of loss and of guilt —venice days