In the hills of Burundi, a group of escaped coltan miners creates an oasis in a technological graveyard. Eager to punish the corrupt and domineering Authority, which abuses the land for its resources and seeks to control its locals through soul-crushing, robotic controls, the group seeks to establish a hacker coalition to uproot the evil that has taken over their home. When one of the miners meets an intersex runaway, also incredibly intuned and talented in technology, they experience a binary-altering connection that will inspire them to fight for the rights of their nation, and find camaraderie in one another.
From co-directors Saul Williams, the musical artist behind the 2016 album MartyrLoserKing, and Rwandan-born cinematographer Anisia Uzeyman, "Neptune Frost" blends the aesthetics and capitalist and colonialist significances of cyberpunk with Afrofuturism to bring a gorgeous feat of a musical, one that is expressly its own, and one of the most visually ambitious films of 2021.