Synopsis
In a story full of twists and turns, Night of the Fireflies follows in the great tradition of African culture in which real and unreal are merely two sides of the same coin. Set in the nightmarish landscape of the traumatized city of Maputo, capital of Mozambique, the story unfolds over 15 days in the Christmas of 1984. On a desperate quest to find his lost lover in the war-torn city, the narrator becomes a guest in the household of Rainer, a highly eccentric man of mixed race whose psychic powers are startlingly revealed in his extraordinary healing of a dying soldier.
