On a Beautiful, Wonderful Day (2021)

On A Beautiful Wonderful Day follows the story of Lisa, 25, a recent Masters-degree graduate and a nun-in-training who has just taken her temporary vows at the convent of St. Martin de Porres. The story opens with Lisa celebrating her initiation into the Catholic Order on a beach where she comes across a mysterious, semi-conscious man lying in a shallow wave. This mystery man claims to be a doomsday prophet of some sort who has swum across the Atlantic Ocean from West Africa to charge the U.S. government with "27 Grievances" against its citizens. Committed to an asylum for several weeks, he's finally released; whereby Lisa-the one who first found him-must now return him to the convent. The ride back proves very eventful in a supernaturally twisted way which leads Lisa to question everything she had known to be true about herself and even her own country. On A Beautiful Wonderful Day is part love story, part dreamscape, part critique on capitalism, sprinkled with supernatural, dark comedic, and West African elements, and is altogether essential viewing.