State of Mind: Healing Trauma

This true, astonishing story describes how King Leopold II of Belgium turned Congo into its private colony between 1885 and 1908. Under his control, Congo became a gulag labor camp of shocking brutality. Leopold posed as the protector of Africans fleeing Arab slave-traders but, in reality, he carved out an empire based on terror to harvest rubber.

Riva is a small time operator who has just returned to his hometown of Kinshasa, Congo after a decade away with a major score: a fortune in hijacked gasoline. Wads of cash in hand and out for a good time, Riva is soon entranced by beautiful night club denizen Nora, the kept woman of a local gangster.

Papy finds out he has AIDS. His wife and family reject him, he can no longer go to work and has to take care of his children. To be able to obtain the antiretrovirals, a member of his family must accompany him, but he has no one. He turns to desperate measures to get his medicine.