A blind school court in West Africa is the venue for shaping reality by inference, and learning the truth. It is the core of the film, which beats upon the daily life of the blind teenagers in a school in Freetown, Sierra Leone. The young people encounter an impulsive blind judge, and they must prove their innocence. Who ordered sweets containing forbidden chewing gum? Why were they talking in Krio? For how many days did he give his lunch to a friend? Student daily life is woven into stories and a puzzle. Spoons or lacking one recur throughout. Eating or not. Yearning other foods. Young blind women tell evocative allegories; there’s a creation myth spider, and symbolic baboons. Braille texts about the moon open the universe to blind students. Adama sits beside the judge in court, and repeats her question about the guilt of the accused. She tells an allegory about adultery, in which evil is embodied in a baboon. Evil is nearby, perhaps everywhere. So is guilt.
Wants
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