The Anchorage of Time

Izidine, a recently promoted Police Detective, is called to an elderly home set in a former colonial fortress to investigate a crime: Vasto Excelêncio, the home's director has been murdered. Marta, the home's nurse tries to steer the investigation to the real crime, the home's very own existence. Izidine is confronted with a surprise: all the residents confess that they are the murderer. Their motives going from the way the director treated the elderly, beating them, the domestic violence perpetrated by the director on his own wife, or the nurse confessing a love affair with the deceased who forced her to have an abortion. The detective will slowly discover that the real crime was a revenge.The film is based on the novel ''Under the Frangipani'' by the internationally renowned write Mia Couto.