The Blue Eyes of Yonta focuses on the disillusionment of the revolutionary generation in what Variety called "an offbeat, lilting film with a dreamy quasi-Caribbean rhythm." Vincente, a disenchanted hero of the independence struggle, has grudgingly adapted himself to postrevolutionary society in the face of overwhelming corruption, indifference, and incompetence. He doesn't notice that Yonta, the beautiful daughter of two old comrades, has become infatuated with him. Yonta represents the younger generation which has grown up since liberation, full of dreams of their own-fashion, pop music, the affluence of the consumer society. Yonta, in turn, is unaware of the attentions of Zé, a poor student from the country, whose own tragicomic, romantic illusions also blind him to the world. Director Flora Gomes says, "While I reluctantly grew older, I saw the city of Bissau recovering its youth almost every day. I heard it switching to another language, another dream, another aim."