Synopsis
The setting is a Zimbabwe prison cell in 1986. It is occupied by two men and a woman who have been slung in the slammer after a bar-room brawl. Suddenly, their testy cohabitation is shattered by the arrival of Comrade Fiasco, a man who claims to be a former freedom fighter but who has spent the past seven years in a cave, unaware of his country’s transition to post-colonial independence. In an attempt to reconstruct Fiasco’s past, the three prisoners indulge in various forms of role-play and, in the process, reveal their doubts and fears about the present.