Marx's children Emigration is a social death. It is a death that is expected (but not always followed) to have a beautiful new life with new circumstances, people, thoughts. The heroes of the picture, having sold off all their modest property, find themselves in a kind of almost ontological intermediate state, the bardo, when the return path to their homeland is cut off, and the safe road forward is in no hurry to loom. Time and space have taken on a paradoxical configuration, leaving the characters alone with their own dissatisfaction, fears and contradictions.
The main character desperately wants to leave, almost to escape. He fears a future that threatens to turn into poverty, responsibility and a clash with his own mediocrity. He is bored because the measured reality goes against his left-wing views. But the main problem is that the hero has nothing to oppose the world in response. The plot of the film demonstrates the very limited applicability of the phrase voiced at the very beginning of the film: ': Saying a word is an action in itself' Ideas and words are too often turned into nothing, and this is evident in a hermetic situation of waiting, excluded from all streams. Max, not shown to the viewer, can be perceived as an external force in relation to a person, without the impulse of which a person remains in the previous inactive state. And Africa for heroes is the same communism where ' everything will be high' and ' you just have to wait'.
In fact, the director paints a psychological portrait of a generation of politicized youth. Confused, the children of May 68 could not reconcile themselves with the surrounding reality. Utopian dreams and debates about film and politics went away with adolescence, throwing these people into an adult and boring world in which they never managed to fully integrate. Flameful speeches and demands for the impossible are a thing of the past, but they have laid bare their own foundations based on human weaknesses. And now to understand, to judge, to react - it is a matter of the next generations.