Moko Jumbie

A gothic punk Caribbean love story arises in the ruins of a coconut plantation in rural Trinidad in MOKO JUMBIE, the feature film debut of filmmaker Vashti Anderson. Set in 1990 against the backdrop of the country's failed coup attempt, Young Asha (Vanna Girod) has just returned from her home in England to her native island seeking her roots. What should be a brief visit turns into much more as she's drawn to Roger (Jeremy Thomas), an idealistic, pan-platying, crab-catching Afro-Caribbean fisherman across the road. The taboo attraction between the two teenagers grows despite family disapproval, political turmoil, a clash between cultures, and mysterious hauntings by ancestral spirits.