A professor takes a group of students on a trip to an abandoned stage in a park, with the intention of finding a scenic setting for the production of the opera "Narcissus and Echo" by Anja Djordjevic.
Retelling of the Greek myth. Grada Kilomba's 'Narcissus and Echo' is a metaphor for a society which has yet to resolve its colonial past and is incapable of seeing beyond its own reflection.
Afterwards she paced alone around nature for the rest of her life, gradually fading to an echo. As punishment, a deity of revenge was then said to have led Narcissus to a pool of water where he ...