AN OUTPOST OF PROGRESS by Hugo Vieira da Silva premieres on television this Sunday, at midnight. Starring Nuno Lopes, Ivo Alexandre and David Caracol, the film is broadcast on RTP1.

At the end of the nineteenth century, two inexperienced Portuguese colonizers, with a vague intention of civilizing the colonies, disembark in a remote part of the Congo River in order to coordinate a trading post.

As time goes by, they become increasingly demoralized by their inability to profit from the ivory trade. A mutual feeling of distrust and misunderstadings with the locals isolate them at the heart of the tropical jungle. Faced with each other, they begin a journey towards the abyss.