To obtain a passport and a fresh start, undocumented Belarusian refugee Aleksei joins the French Foreign Legion. In the Niger Delta, his mission brings him face to face with Jomo, a young freedom fighter who dreams of becoming a dancer.

Trembling to the electronic beats of famed producer Vitalic, Giacomo Abbruzzese’s Silver Bear–winning debut feature injects eroticism into the hypermasculine environment of mercenary life. With shades of Claire Denis’s Beau Travail, this postcolonial reckoning journeys to the heart of imperialism.