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Most of the African children who are given in adoption come from Ethiopia. Zacarías was on the verge of being an adopted child in Europe, but he was not. However, as many others, he knows what growing in a distant place means. In 1983, he was sent with hundreds of Ethiopians to live and study at Isla de la Juventud (Cuba). 22 years later, Zacarías returns to Ethiopia with a video camera on his hand and a strange mixed feeling, something between fear and desire.

A conversation with a woman who washes and massages the women who go to the hammam (public baths), helps bring the neighbourhood children into the world, and to wash the dead.

Life at the « Petit Château » is about waiting. At the windows, glances and gestures hang immobile. In the corridors, shadows pass, and a thousand languages resonate. Waiting for a few months, or maybe years, changes the château into a prison of the mind. In this unexpectedly-named halfway house, asylum-seekers from all over the world kill time waiting to find out if their requests will be accepted. Like in The Arabian Nights, time flies by as the tale is told. Even the name of the Petit Château conjures up tales, a myriad of possibilities, grinding humour. How can we find for each person the individuality of a story, and, beyond the refugee, rediscover the person ? Together, we make a pact of fiction : a game, a step back from ourselves, our dreams and desires. Thus the château is inhabited, little by little, by a snake-spitting princess, a magnanimous king, ghosts that haunt the passages ...

2 Mostra de Vídeo Independent de Barcelona 1994.

Demetrio Stratos was born in Egypt to Greek parents. He first came to Italy in the 1960s where he becomes the singer of I Ribelli, which had been the band of Adriano Celentano. In the 1970s he co-founded Area, one of the most provocative and innovative experimental pop groups. Area brought musical exploration directly to the streets and protest gatherings. The band combined rock, jazz, contemporary western music, ethnical themes and electronic sounds. Beginning with Area's experimental repertoire, and running parallel to this, Stratos engaged in a study of the voice as a pure musical and sound-producing instrument. His discography includes several voice-only records, while he worked with artists such as John Cage, as he was able to express a very wide range of tonality, and was able to emit even three different-pitched sounds simultaneously. He gets studied by physicians and phoniatrists. The paths followed by his voice lead us to discover the creativeness of Italian and European political and artistical movements of the 70s, whose heritage is often at the fundaments of today's society.