Visiting the ruins of an abandoned sports complex, the camera finds vestiges of the recent struggle for the independence of the Congo. From the scene of desolation emerges a ghostly voice over that reads a letter written by Patrice Lumumba to his wife Pauline. Leader of the resistance against the exceptionally cruel Belgian colonial forces that dominated the country, the politician, after being chosen prime minister in free elections, was deposed, persecuted and murdered by opponents backed by the US and Belgium.

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