Love in a Cold Climate. A story of urban living and rituals of survival - ACE427.4

Horse-rider. Nkosi talking to his friend, suggests Cornelia should go away and get some sun; she says yes, but there’s always the coming back. She says the situation gets to Nkosi and the others as much as to her. Cornelia. Carnations floating on water. VO "In times of trouble and internal turmoil, we seek powers of transformation buried deep within ourselves, pleading for ancestral voices, searching for the promised rebirth of souls gone, coming and living… " Nkosi and Cornelia at Ghanaian naming party; child’s cry over. Man officiating says (subtitled) with responses from others: "When a child is born. We gather on the eighth day to name it. To find a name from the family we look at both the father’s side and the mother’s…" Flowers floating on water; people at the naming party; grandmother gives child’s names as Papa Ekow Azailwie and explains what they mean. Flowers at tombstone. Naming ritual continues: the baby symbolically learns the difference between truth and lies, etc. Kwame. Drinking the health of the baby. Dancing after the ceremony. Sunset. Caption: "In the urban landscape, hope is the ultimate arbiter." Hands holding glowing red ball. Credits over African artefacts.