The Onion Tower

On our second day here we pay homage to Agostinho Neto, the founding president of Angola. As we go through the solemn rites I am reminded of Good Bye Lenin. It is a film about Alex who finds himself in a fix when his mother goes into a coma. Alex's problem is that his mum is an unwavering adherent of the East German communist party. She sleeps through the fall of the Berlin Wall and the invasion of her country by western consumer products. Knowing his mother's devotion to communism, and owing to the doctor's warning that the patient would suffer a fatal heart attack were she to experience any shock, Alex tries to insulate her from the fact that communism is dead.