Parents' Guide to Black Beach

BLACK BEACH tells the story of corruption at the highest levels on the world scene. Carlos (Raul Arevalo), seemingly a Spaniard, lives in Brussels and works for a multinational oil company. Representing his company, he heads to an emerging African nation, where he lived in his youth, to negotiate the release of an American supposedly kidnapped by local terrorists trying to overthrow the government. If he can organize the smooth release of the American, it will show that the young country is stable and can offer easy and orderly access to its oil. But Carlos finds the facts on the ground are different. There was no kidnapping. Instead, hidden documents could prove the country's authoritarian and militaristic president Ndong (Emilio Buale) is a criminal. Carlos also discovers the son he left behind years back, now being raised by his ex-girlfriend and a peaceful activist. The more involved the blundering Carlos becomes, the more he puts friends at risk and they start dropping like flies at the hands of Ndong and his soldiers. To avenge those deaths, Carlos arranges to release the documents, but international and economic pressures intervene, as well as his own mom. Carlos, in turn, has his own revenge.