WRECKERS

A wild scavenger hunt spanning continents and centuries Lisbon 1954 In the Military History Archives a mysterious figure steals the Final Will and Testament of Garoto Bárbaro de Castro a list of thirteen bequests and a record of Garoto s remarkable life story It is also a window onto the many other lives connected to his including that of the archival thief his descendent Nuno Bárbaro de Castro After stealing Garoto s Final Will and Testament Nuno Bárbaro de Castro artifact hunter grave robber fake veterinarian and agent of Angolan Independence sets off to hunt the listed artifacts while also collecting the distant relatives of those mentioned in the Will even when they don t want to be collected A rowdy darkly funny centuries spanning revenge drama The Wreckers moves between Portugal Angola Cuba and Louisiana s Angola prison to examine the scars of the transatlantic slave trade and the consequences of prolonged civil war