A sanctimonious plantation owner in 1790s Havana stages a pre-Easter recreation of The Last Supper using twelve of the slaves from his fields as the disciples. He hopes to teach them about Christianity and even promises a reprieve from work on Good Friday. The enslaved men reject the proselytizing during the long dinner. In the morning, the men learn their brutal foreman has not learned of the “day off,” leading to a violent confrontation.

“In Buñuel territory minus the surreal sarcasm, this is a chilling film on the cry of the dispossessed against colonial rule. Alea uses Christianity both as ideological opium and as a liberating eschatology, constructing the last days of the Holy Week in three stunningly directed and acted episodes of slave labor, last supper, rebellion/bloodbath/hope. The result is a political bombshell in both film form and content.” dionysus67, mubi

“A surreal tragedy that interrogates the intersection between slavery and christianity, and is one of the best film’s i’ve seen about either subject.” Proselyte Magazine