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MAMI WATA is the water goddess worshipped and revered

across West, Central and Southern Africa,

and among the Afrikan diasporas of the Americas...

Over the centuries, there has been many assumptions about MAMI WATA.

Fewer assumptions exist in the isolated village of Iyi

Until now.

Zinwe!

My child is gone... she is gone...

I am begging you Mama Efe, please help bring her back... please...

Your child didn’t die...

She only went back to where she came from.

You know that’s how it is.

Zinwe!

Don’t be angry with me...

Things are never as you think they are...

I don't want to hear that, Mother!

I’ve been hearing that since I was little.

What does it mean?

You're the Intermediary in Iyi.

What can't you do?

You're the one with the power here!

How do you refuse to help that woman?

Mother...

If it was me...

what would you have done?

When I become the Intermediary,

I will abolish all this foolishness from Iyi.

No mother will ever cry over...

...the loss of her child to MAMI WATA in Iyi again.

You're a marine child, too, Zinwe.

When I couldn't bear children...

I was infertile...

That's when MAMI WATA gave you to me.

That's the way things are.

You are a child of the Water.

I can't believe...

that you would lie...

just because you want to remain Intermediary.

Aja!

"Zinwe, let's go home."

There's fewer people coming...

Aren't you worried that people will resent you

for having to give you a portion of their yield?

I do worry. But that is the way of the Intermediary.

Our people give MAMI WATA a token of what she gives them...

They come to say "Ndenk" (Thank you).

So they can leave with blessings.

I didn't start it.

It has always been this way since the birth of our land, Iyi.

A time will come when you will understand.

Zinwe,

let's go home.

I am not going anywhere.

Our people need you.

You know you'll be the Intermediary.

I don't want to be the Intermediary.

What are you saying? You don't want to be Intermediary?

Since childhood, you've dreamt of nothing else!

Iyi...

they don't believe anymore.

You... do you believe?

I don't want to ever hear about MAMI WATA here!

And do you want to hear about Mother?

I can't take Zinwe anymore.

That child doesn't listen.

Iyi no longer believes in Mother.

What do you want, Prisca?

What you want, it counts.

When I came to Iyi, I had nothing.

Mother took me in like her own child.

The people of Iyi are my people.

I don't know anything beyond this place.

I want my people to be happy.

That's all I want.

Let's dance.

Can I enter?

You know that I scream...

Then I will tie your mouth shut.

- No, Mother is sleeping... - Okay...

"She no longer has any power."

- Why couldn't she save him? - She no longer has any power.

Where are you going?

This is what I've been telling you all...

That this woman you call Mama Efe has no power!

You say you have powers...

Show us!

You couldn't even save Agbo's son.

Where is MAMI WATA's power? Where is it?

Every month you take your harvest...

your food, your money!

And you give everything. But when you need help...

She can't...

Listen, other villages have progressed!

They have electricity...

They have schools...

They have running water...

They have hospitals that would have been able to save Agbo's son!

And what do we have?

We have Mama Efe.

Mama Efe!

Is it true that Zinwe stole your totem and ran away?

That means Zinwe has abandoned us!

"Maybe she has answered us."

I am Mama Efe.

She is Prisca.

She is the one who saved you.

You are in Iyi.

My nurse and I have been travelling the villages,

administering these vaccines...

And your daughter invited us to administer them to your people...

We received an unfortunate report, involving a young boy...

God rest his soul...

But I believe that these vaccines

will help curb the spread of any virus within the village.

There is no virus in my village.

- Yes, but you see... - No "But" Mister Doctor!

My village is well protected!

Protected, you say? How so?

All you men of Western science...

What do you know beyond your books?

You know nothing about the worlds beyond what you can see with your eyes!

Mother...

This man is a doctor who wants to save our children...

...so they won't die.

- Thank you for the invitation, Prisca. - Thank you, Prisca.

Doctor...

I know you brought the doctor into Iyi...

I know you allowed him to give his medicine to our people.

Don't worry.

We pray that MAMI WATA will help Iyi.

Maybe she has answered us.

"If Iyi is my land, then it can be yours as well..."

This food is delicious.

Prisca prepared it.

Since I've been here, there's something that I have noticed in your village

I haven't seen a school or hospital...

...and no army, or police, as far as I can see.

What would we do with the army or police,

when we have MAMI WATA?

It's MAMI WATA who gives us food, and everything we need.

We have seen the far away towns, and how they behave...

They've forgotten who they are.

Because they follow the white man.

But here in Iyi, we know who we are.

But you still haven't told us who you are.

Mother...

I will speak...

My name is Jasper.

I was waging a war for my people.

We are the ones they call "rebel".

But quickly, I realised that the rebels are even worse.

Everything the army does, the rebels do worse.

I decided not to be a part of it anymore.

I found myself on a boat...

Then a stormy wind came, I couldn't see where I was...

I thought I was dead in the Ocean.

And then I wake up in this palace...

This is not a palace.

I am not a Queen.

How you saved me and brought me to this beautiful place...

You are a Queen...

And the Princess...

...gave me this delicious meal to eat.

I... I wanted to thank you...

Or, as you say... "Ndenk".

I did what I was supposed to do.

Still, I appreciate it.

I like how you've designed your room.

You have good taste.

Why wouldn't I have good taste?

Don't be offended. It's a compliment.

Ndenk (Thank you).

You can buy it for your wife.

There is something I didn't tell you two...

The rebels, they...

killed my wife

...after they had raped her.

Ndenk.

- Prisca! - Hello!

Your people really love you...

It's really beautiful...

You're lucky to live here...

I wish I could live here...

Why do you want to leave?

My body is all healed up.

Also, as beautiful as your land is, it's not my land.

But there is a war in your land. And your family is dead.

My mother and father died in the war, when I was little...

If they hadn’t sent me away, I would be dead.

Mama Efe adopted me and brought me to Iyi.

If Iyi is my land, it be can yours too...

Some say that MAMI WATA gave Zinwe to Mama Efe...

because Mama Efe had Zinwe when she had passed childbearing age.

And, no one knows who Zinwe's father is.

You know how these things go...

People like stories that make them 'believe'.

What do you believe?

I think that Mother doesn't want anyone talking.

Maybe Zinwe's father has a wife...

Better not say I told you that.

If Zinwe is truly MAMI WATA's...

MAMI WATA would have already come to take her back.

I'm just surprised that you don't believe the things your Mother believes.

I don't know what I believe...

...apart from the water, the trees, sand and land...

All I know is my mother and my people...

Anything else, doesn't concern me.

"No prayer can change it."

You are Jasper?

Fancy a drink?

Enjoy.

Look at them.

It's the foolish MAMI WATA followers.

At the end of the month, they gather all their food and goods,

And give it all to Mama Efe

So she can enjoy it with her daughter, in their big house.

They are all mad! All of them who follow her are mad!

I know that... you won't join them in their foolishness.

Mother!

Where are you going?

I want to see my child before I depart...

Mother...

Why did you say that you want to see your child before you die?

Zinwe's destiny...

lies beyond here...

No prayer...

No prayer can stop it.

No prayer... No prayer can change it.

As it is...

My time is up.

Don't talk like this, mother...

I was in a dream...

I was dreaming...

And in my dream...

It's Prisca, who annoys me the most...

She drives her motorcycle like she poops gold from her ass.

What annoys me the most, is her devotion to MAMI WATA.

It's like she has seen her with her own eyes.

It's foolishness. She hasn't seen her!

She is mad! They all are mad!

In a war...

there are men whose power is in their mouth...

Their role is to speak, so that others will act.

They will speak...

And make men who have never seen war...

...willingly go into battle.

They are the worst.

What I know is, their time will soon come!

The time has passed where they use MAMI WATA to blind people's eyes.

Me... I see...

I see... very clearly...

There's someone there!

Run...

There's someone there!

Help Zinwe to see.

Run! Run! Run!

I told you that their time has come.

Their time has come! Their time has come!

They are coming! They are coming to destroy our village!

Jasper is with him. I don't know what they want to do.

Get the children out of here.

Get out!

You don't know what you're doing.

There is a power at work in Iyi.

I am not a child to whom you can tell such stories.

You say you're the Intermediary...

yet you don't even know what's happening behind your back

How come you didn't know we've been trying to eliminate you for a long time?

She doesn't know!

MAMI WATA didn't tell her!

Jasper...

Is this how you treat...

the person who saved you, and took you into their home...

You join those who want to kill her.

I follow no one... I only follow myself.

- Everything you're saying... - Mama Efe!

Your time has come.

We want progress.

- Your time has come! - Yes!

Jasper, are you coming?

"MAMI WATA, who you have never seen with your eyes..."

Lots of good stuff inside!

We own this place now.

In short, we own this village now!

But since I'm not a wicked man,

I'll allow you all to continue living here.

I know there's a lot of rooms here.

We've counted them.

As you all can see...

My men and I are all very good-looking.

So, you two can choose who you like.

But Mama Efe's room belongs to me and you.

I'm the boss here.

If anyone has a problem with that, they should speak now.

You know what we're going to do now?

Zinwe is back!

- Don't go... Your mother... - Jasper killed your mother...

- Flee... Let them not kill you... - Run away, Zinwe...

- Please... run away... - Please don't go...

Zinwe...

Welcome back... Oh Queen.

Where is my mother?

Mama Efe is no more.

I know that it hurts, but...

Wait!

I have a better plan.

Mama Efe and all the Intermediaries before her

have bamboozled you with stories of MAMI WATA.

But have you seen her?

Has anyone here seen her?

When sickness comes, she can't save you...

And I hear she takes your food, your money...

Is that fair?

Jabi told me that you want electricity, running water, roads, schools, hospitals.

You know that Mama Efe could never give you all that.

Mama Efe is dead...

Prisca has run away, abandoning you all, right?

But Zinwe is here.

She is the only one present.

Now, if she's going to be the Intermediary,

and if truly MAMI WATA exists

as you've been told by Mama Efe

then when we throw Zinwe into the water, she will not die...

MAMI WATA will save her

If that happens, then truly Zinwe is the Intermediary...

And I'll leave Iyi immediately.

But if we throw her into the water, and she doesn't come out...

Then it means that I'm the Boss,

Because, I, Jasper... survived the water...

There's a reason why I'm here.

I'll be here... But not like Mama Efe.

I will show you that everything you want, everything we want, is in our hands.

I killed your mother.

MAMI WATA foolishness!

- What is that? Is it a fetish? - MAMI WATA's nonsense!

Whatever! Is that MAMI WATA?

It is all nonsense!

- What's inside? - Bullshit!

You are beautiful like your mother...

"Me also, I'm afraid."

Bring your money, and goods...

We will use it to build schools, roads in Iyi!

Bring your money...

...and your goods!

We will use it to build schools, roads in Iyi.

Bring your money, and goods...

We will use it to build schools, roads in Iyi!

Bring your money...

...and your goods!

We will use it to build schools, roads in Iyi!

Bring your money, and goods!

We will use it to build schools, roads in Iyi!

Ndenk

We will use this to purchase better weapons.

What kind of weapons?

Where is Jasper's house?

Johnny Boy!

Big man Jasper!

How in the hell are you still alive, you diehard son of a bitch?

Seems like you're doing well.

Hey, careful, big man.

Sayonara, big man!

What are you going to do?

What am I going to do?

You don't ask what are WE going to do?

There you go again.

That man killed our mother... and would have killed you...

I know that.

What do you want me to do?

He threw me into the water...

While those who claim to be my people stood and watched.

I would have died if you hadn't come.

I thought I was dead...

I know that you are afraid...

Me also, I'm afraid.

You are not afraid, Prisca.

If I didn't run, do you think I would be here now?

What I know is that...

We will fight and win against Jasper and his men.

And you, Zinwe...

...will be the Intermediary in Iyi.

"Blessings have died in Iyi."

What? Did I ask you to enter?

Did I ask you to enter?

Why is the food rotten?

You can't talk anymore?

Iyi has no Intermediary since Mama Efe died...

Blessings have died in Iyi.

Boss Jasper!

"They deceived everyone in Iyi."

- Prisca! - Ero...

What are you doing here?

I thought you ran away from Iyi.

If I hadn't, Jasper and his men would have killed me.

We buried your mother.

Even Kpakpa (The Masquerade) appeared.

But Jasper cast it away.

I know you're mad at me...

...for being with him.

Please...

...forgive me.

They deceived everyone in Iyi.

They said they would build schools...

...build hospitals...

...bring electricity.

So the people gave them their money and their goods...

But Jasper used them to buy many guns.

I saw that.

If only I hadn't been so foolish as to believe him...

...all this would not have happened.

My mother would still be alive.

They killed Zinwe.

They threw her in the ocean.

Please, don't be mad at me...

I wanted to fight...

If they hear in Iyi that Zinwe is not dead...

...our people will come out and will fight Jasper and his men.

It's like when a person dies, and resurrects...

So truly, MAMI WATA saved her.

- Prisca! - I choose Prisca!

Go Zinwe!

"You should be afraid of the Woman."

Isn't that Prisca's bike?

That's Prisca's bike!

Is Prisca here?

Prisca is here? You! Upright!

Where is Prisca? Speak!

She is over there! And Zinwe is with her!

Hello, Prisca.

It's good to see you again.

What is all this all about?

What is this foolishness?

I will admit...

I may have made a few mistakes in my leadership...

And with you.

But going forward, everything is going to be fine.

Where is the electricity, schools and hospitals you promised?

Where is the electricity, schools and hospitals

he promised he would bring?

Put down your weapons...

And I promise I will not kill anyone.

Go down.

Jasper is a woman!

Jabi... you were afraid of him. He is a woman!

Jasper, show us your pussy!

Prisca...

It belongs to you...

What belongs to me?

The totem...

It belongs to you...

You're supposed to wear it...

Mum always knew it would be you...

...that would be the Intermediary.

And not me...

Won't you come out?

You think I'll fear you, because you wear that thing?

I'm not afraid of women!

Ask the other woman who is in the ground.

Jabi...

You should be afraid of the Woman.