The blue eyes of Yonta

Yonta, a beautiful young woman much admired and the daughter of a former freedom fighter, and her brother Amílcar, named after the leader of the fight for independence – the extraordinary intellectual, agronomist, diplomat, and politician Amílcar Cabral – take part in a new struggle against the burden of the colonial legacy. While Amílcar and the other children embody the unwavering solidarity of African ethics, Yonta is in love with a former freedom fighter and courted by a young man shaped by incompatible European ideals – the blue eyes from a Swedish book that he copies out in an attempt to win her affection.