There is no single instance of racism or injustice that pushes Tony to enlightenment. Indeed, at times, Ové seems to be constructing a kind of racial farce wherein certain figures, whether bigoted white business owners or Black Power movement members, exaggerate their respective performances past the level of archetype. In one scene, Tony runs into Colin at the local market and meets Sister Louise (Sheila Scott-Wilkinson), who rattles off a series of Black Power platitudes more from memory than any genuine passion, a performance of the revolutionary rather than an embodiment of it. But whereas a lesser film would use such instances to undermine the veracity of a movement’s political zeal, Ové demonstrates the degree to which any road to organizing and personal understanding is sometimes paved with half-gestures and hollow imitations.
— Nicholas Russell (Reverse Shot)
Synopsis: A British-born younger son of an immigrant family from Trinidad finds himself adrift between two cultures.