Atlantics

“watching this film helped me reconnect with my belief in love again. bodies of water in relation to the black experience - they don't want me to get started”

“Mati Diop's modern ghost story of love and loss rattles around in my brain like an unquiet spirit. Ada's true love Souleiman is part of the construction crew for a massive new tower on the edge of Dakar, but no one has been paid for months. Desperate, he and the other workers take to the sea, attempting to migrate toward something better, and disappear into the waves. Once they are gone, strange things begin to happen—houses burn, people fall ill. Have the young men somehow returned? What do the living owe them? An eerie, beautiful film.”