Eden is a documentary about the importance of cinema in society and contemporary imagination, analysed from a particular phenomenon: the existence of a missing film in the collective memory of a social microcosm implanted in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean – São Vicente, Cape Verde.

Between the 1940s and 1950s, four films were produced on this island, directed and interpreted by young Cape Verdean amateurs. “A Força da Cobiça” is the first and the only which reached our days; the Westerns “O Cavaleiro Mascarado” and “O Guarda Vingador”, and the 1954 drama “O Segredo dum Coração Culpado”, a love story between two brothers.

This setting allows to raise questions about the functions of cinema in society and the consequences of the physical disappearance of projection rooms in small and home-based nuclei. In São Vicente, cinema was seen, cinema was made, and cinema was lived. This documentary intends to tell a little of that history, the story of an island and a time when the only ways to leave it were either through the sea or through cinema.