ABSTRACT
Jonah is a film set in the fishing town of Zanzibar about a changing man in a changing town. Aggressive tourism sparked by Jonah’s discovery of the world’s biggest fish has caused the town and himself to change beyond recognition. The town is now a glowing, tacky, money-making, wildly opportunistic beach resort, which has abandoned its original fishing roots. As an old man Jonah is ashamed of what his old fishing town has become and decides to hunt down the legendary fish and kill it, killing what it represents.
