Negus Lee Scratch Perry

The legendary Jamaicanborn dub and regga master Rasta Lee Scratch Perry the spiritual MC of the film invokes Haile Selassie in a fiery reenactment of an historical event from the Italian Fascist period when an effigy of the last Negus of Ethiopia Haile Selassie I was burned in the main square of the filmmakers hometown Vernasca a village located between Milano and Bologna At the same time Hailé Selassié I was becoming the Black Messiah for Rastafarianism a movement born in Jamaica during the 30s and spread all over the planet including Ethiopia considered the Mother Land by Rasta followers