He Sleeps

Bertrand, a young African American anthropologist, is supposedly in Senegal for fieldwork. He actually traveled there from Denver hoping that distance might help him see his strained marriage more clearly. He tries to find his place within a Senegalese household made up of Alaine, Kene and their young daughter. For the first time in his life, he is plagued by dreams that are strange and grow steadily more violent. His waking life is just as unsettling, because he is pulled into the charged relationship between the married couple, a tension that is both sexual and something more.