Set in Bahia, Brazil, THE GOOD DEATH explores a decade with the Sisterhood of the Good Death, descendants of women abolitionists and devoted Candomblé practitioners, as they navigate protection of their Afro-Brazilian legacy amid state led commercialization and erasure of their historic ties to Black American solidarity.
THE GOOD DEATH explores the layered tensions between sacred identity, political survival and the global curiosity of Black travelers. What happens when a persecuted faith becomes a touristic performance? And what does it mean when a once powerful group of women must now rely on state funding to preserve a tradition that the same state once tried to destroy?
