Pasolini's documentary on his preparations to film a modern-day version of Aeschylus' Orestes in Africa has been called by Village Voice critic Jim Hoberman “a key to an understanding of the particular Freudian-Marxist-Christian world-view that was Pasolini's.... Aeschylus' myth of the first human tribunal--with its climactic transformation of the archaic Furies into the civilizing Eumenides--had, Pasolini thought, a special relevance to the situation of underdeveloped societies in the throes of modernization. The film, however, was never made. What we have here is mainly hand-held 16mm footage...on a 1970 location-scout through Tanzania and Uganda. The director scours remote villages for possible Agamemnons, reconnoiters crowded marketplaces, and documents local rituals, all the while keeping up a running meditation on the third world and his imagined film.”