Understory is an extraordinary personal essay on a plant and all its cultural and economic ramifications: cacao. Traveling through Sao Tome and Principe, England and Brazil, the director walks between past and present, dismantling the schemes of European colonial oppression and investigating the possibilities of a fair exploitation of the plant. And in the various corners of the world, it is the women who bring about change. An alternate story, which is a her-story and an understory.
