The concerned brother of a missing man sets out on a cross-continental search for his vanished sibling in a labyrinthine faux-documentary. Max has disappeared, and the only clues to his whereabouts are a collection of videotapes featuring footage previously shot in Kinshasa and Lisbon. Kaze isn't willing to let his brother go without first getting some solid answers, but his Portuguese father's nostalgic fixation on Congo and his rambling mother's obtuse disdain for the European lifestyle offers no clue as to Max's current whereabouts. Despite the notable lack of help from his parents, Kaze is now in possession of a symbolic tribal bracelet and a red notebook once owned by his brother. When Kaze arrives in Cambodia to continue the search, all signs seem to suggest that he is hot on Max's trail and fast closing in. Kinshasa Palace is an engrossing study of family displacement and the socially corrosive ramifications of the recent African diasporas, speaking volumes about the legacy of an unstable Africa on the micro level.
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