Clando starts in Cameroon. Serious economic problems in the country have led many to find work by being non authorized taxi drivers called "Clandos". Anatole the main character starts as a clando but is soon asked to go to Germany by a wealthy man to find his son. Anatole goes to Germany where he gets involved with an activist white woman and locates the wealthy man's son.
If my description is foggy and confusing its partly because it has been almost a month since I saw it and am only now writing about it. It is partly because the narrative of the film is such a mess that I found it almost entirely impossible to follow. It jumps back and forth in time and into dream sequences (I think they are dream sequences) so often that only the most dedicated even bothers to try to keep up.
IT offers some interesting looks into Cameroonian culture but these are infrequent and much of the film takes place in Germany rather than Cameroon. It asks broadly but offers no satisfying answers to questions of how to protest government: by violence or otherwise. This confusion of how to act seems to transfer to the confusion of the film making and narrative.
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