A time traveler gathers data to create an Afro-diasporic mythology. She seeks to build an Afrocentric narrative based on a decolonial language and a synesthetic experience of understanding the world.

Muanza, a woman born in the Kingdom of Kongo in the early nineteenth century and trafficked to Brazil, awakens to find herself in the present, roaming the streets of Rio’s rapidly changing port region, known as ‘Pequena Africa’, or Little Africa.