Summaries

A young African man trying to escape from poverty ends up working for a corrupt and dangerous organization.

A story about a young African man living with his beautiful childhood love interest in a bedroom shack, struggling to find work. He then gets a once in a lifetime opportunity to earn money and have a lifestyle beyond his wildest dreams working for a corrupt organization. This dream lifestyle turns to a nightmare when authorities close in on him to turn in his father-figure boss, and his entire organization while losing all his wealth or risk some serious jail time.

A saga of a young African man living in an impoverished environment with his childhood love interest who accidentally gets a high position in a corrupt organization where he is forced to choose between some serious jail time or death at the hands of his dangerous employers.—Ernest Napoleon

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Keywords
  • man
  • escape
Genres
  • Thriller
  • Crime
  • Drama
  • Romance
Release date Oct 31, 2022
Countries of origin Tanzania
Official sites facebook
Language English French Swahili
Filming locations Tanzania
Production companies Busy Bees

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Synopsis

Peponi is a story about a struggling young African man whois living in a one-bedroom shack with his beautiful childhoodlove interest.He is struggling to find work to keep his beautiful girlfriend,Clara, who is continually being charmed by his landlord,Ngoma, to leave Paul. That is unless he urgently gets his lifetogether and marries her.Due to an application mix-up, not only does Paul gets a job,but is quickly promoted to a high position to facilitateembezzlement of funds by his new employers.Being initiated to their "inner circle", Paul is introduced to ahigh life of money, power and endless parties by his bossDullah who is looking to pull off a last heist so that he canflee the country with his mistress Melda. Paul is at the center of thisheistMeanwhile, authorities led by Special Agent Peter who has abit of an unpleasant history with Dullah, need Paul's help tosnitch on Dullah so that he can be brought to justice.While all this is happening, Paul's beautiful girlfriend isslipping away from him as Ngoma uses time and money tospoil her and give her endless attention while Paul is atwork.This nightmare scenario progresses as Paul is put undertime pressure by the authorities to deliver Dullah on a "silverplatter". Otherwise, they threaten to use some serious dirtfrom his past to send him straight to jail.Paul decides to turn in Dullah in a sequence of thrillingevents that leads to a kidnapping of his girlfriend and leaveshim badly injured, shot and almost killed in the process.

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