Taprobana

In this short comedy Luis Vaz de Camoes the greatest Portuguese renaissance poet struggles creatively while engaging in a hedonistic coprophagic and drug addled lifestyle The film follows the poet and his lover Dinamene as he writes his masterpiece the epic poem Os Lusiadas He travels from the cacophony of the Indic jungles surrounded by allegorical elephants and rhyming macaques to the frontier of Heaven and Hell where he is confronted by his fantasy fame and immortality