The young man's disappointment causes him to commit suicide by a bullet to his temple, with the aid of his sister, who - pressured by her macho husband - was not able to live with her brother's homosexuality.

[1] In a statement director Alberto Cavallone gave to the Italian journal "Nocturno", he said that he was interested in exploring this type of relationship that was considered taboo at the time.

[1] Above all, he wanted to do an African story in which Africa would only be a backdrop in order to make the protagonists closer to each other.

[1] In a decolonialised Africa, Cavallone said, the whites were like the soldiers of General Custer.

[1] At one point, the director and the cameraman were put into a security prison cell.