Plot
The American artist couple Port and Kit Moresby travels aimless through Africa, searching for new experiences that could give new sense to their relationship. But the flight to distant regions leads both only deeper into despair.
Keywords: 1940s, adultery, american-abroad, arab, author-cameo, autobiographical, bar, bare-breasts, based-on-novel, bicycle
A woman's dangerous and erotic journey...
[first lines]::Port Moresby: Well, terra firma.::Tunner: We're probably the first tourists they've had since the war.::Kit Moresby: Tunner, we're not tourists. We're travelers.::Tunner: Oh. What's the difference?::Port Moresby: A tourist is someone who thinks about going home the moment they arrive, Tunner.::Kit Moresby: Whereas a traveler might not come back at all.::Tunner: You mean *I'm* a tourist.::Kit Moresby: Yes, Tunner. And I'm half and half.
Tunner: You've been to North Africa before, Port. Kit and I will just follow your plan.::Port Moresby: My only plan is, I have no plan.
Kit Moresby: Other people's dreams are so dull.::Port Moresby: Kit has days when everything in the world is merely a sign for something else. A white Mercedes can't just simply be a white Mercedes. It must have a secret meaning about the whole of life. Everything is an omen. Nothing can just be what it is.
Kit Moresby: Oh, Tunner, stop trying to be interesting. On you it looks terrible. And you're too good-looking.
Tunner: Do you and Port ever... share the same room?::Kit Moresby: Tunner, when you travel for months on end, you have to set it up this way. But if you're talking about sex, the first rule of marriage is never to confuse it with sleep.
Kit Moresby: Now we're going to have to choose between two tortures: taking the train or driving with them.
Kit Moresby: Champagne yes, philosophy no.
Port Moresby: You know, if Tunner didn't take such long siestas, I'd never be alone with you. I think he's in love with you.::Kit Moresby: Port, don't be silly.::Port Moresby: Sillier things have happened. The way he hangs around making inane conversation, the way he looks at you when he fingers his DDT can...::Kit Moresby: What else?::Port Moresby: Oh, the ferocity with which he counts your luggage.::Kit Moresby: Oh, he counts yours too.::Port Moresby: It's not the same.
Kit Moresby: Someday they're gonna kick the French out of this country.::Port Moresby: Well, with trousers like that, who can blame them?
Tunner: Do you think, uh, Port suspects something?::Kit Moresby: I think he knows, but he doesn't know that he knows.
Port Moresby ( /ˌpɔərt ˈmɔərzbi/), or Pot Mosbi in Tok Pisin, is the capital and largest city of Papua New Guinea (PNG). It is located on the shores of the Gulf of Papua, on the southeastern coast of the island of New Guinea, which made it a prime objective for conquest by the Imperial Japanese forces during 1942–43 in World War II, as a staging point and air base to cut off Australia from Southeast Asia and the Americas. In 2000 it had a population of 254,158. As of 2009 it has a population of 307,643, giving it an annual growth rate of 2.1% over a nine year period.
The place where the city was founded has been inhabited by the Motu-Koitabu people for centuries. The first European to see it was Captain John Moresby in 1873. It was named in honour of his father, Admiral Sir Fairfax Moresby.
According to a survey of world cities by the Intelligence Unit of The Economist, Port Moresby is one of the world's least livable cities (ranked 137 of 140 cities rated).
Although Port Moresby is surrounded by Central Province, of which it is also the capital, it is not part of that province, but forms the National Capital District.
Geneva Mendoza Cruz-Miller, who is better known by her screen name Geneva Cruz, (born April 2, 1976) is a Filipina singer and actress. Cruz was a member of the defunct music group Smokey Mountain.
Cruz began her career in 1989 as one of the lead singers of the popular group Smokey Mountain. The Smokey Mountain album went double platinum while her first album, I Like You, went platinum. The album produced several hit singles, including the title track and "Anak ng Pasig" (from the movie of the same title) in which Geneva appeared. "Anak Ng Pasig," was also chosen as Best Pop Song by the 1992 Catholic Mass Media Awards.
Born in Gagalangin, Tondo, Manila, she comes from the legendary Cruz clan (one of Tirso Cruz Sr.'s Great Grand-Daughters) which include celebrities like Tirso Cruz III, Sunshine Cruz, Sheryl Cruz and Donna Cruz. She is also the cousin of actor-dancer Rayver Cruz, and singer Glenda Cruz.
She has been married to MTV VJ KC Montero since January 2004. She has a fifteen year old son- Heaven by her former husband, musician Paco Arespacochaga.