Futa is the Mandinka word "arrive". The film "Futa" is the poetic voyage of a Jamaican-Canadian poet who spills spells of irony and twisted fate rooted in rituals that extend from the Citizenship Office in Toronto to the big cities and back bushes of West Africa. His journey is a sumptuous meditation on "rituals" that transmorphs the psyche of modern day Africans. Throughout the film, he interprets "rituals" in six very distinct segments of the journey. These segments are: Rites of Passage, Cost of Access, Rites of Citizenship, Ritual abuse-torture, Passage into Adulthood and Creating Rituals that Create Rituals. These six segments lead to the final qualitative destination of a ritualized awareness of self and community. "Futa" is pregnant with passion and poetry that "animates" ideas explored while bridging each section of the film. And like a lucid dream, you will know where you are... but heaven forgive you for forgetting how you arrived.