A boat docks on an island to the sound of Passenger from Iggy Pop. “Welcome to La Gomera, the pearl of the Canaries,” announces a speaker. Cristi, a Romanian inspector, is expected there by the mysterious Kiko, who plays the Spanish-Swiss comedian Antonio Buil. His mission is to teach him the silbo gomero, a whistled language for thousands of years, today classified as intangible heritage of humanity.
From this opening sequence rich in promise, Corneliu Porumboiu builds a film divided into a few chapters each bearing the name of one of its main characters. A way for him to cover the tracks by exploding the narrative through a succession of back and forth times which one wonders after an hour if they are not simply intended to mask the lack of originality of a scenario that is both simple and confusing.
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