A Brazilian farmer turned bandit is employed by a plantation owner to keep his restless slave population in check, but Cobra Verde's eye for the women brings down the wrath of his boss when one by one the man's daughters become tainted by the seed of the bandit's loins. Dismissed to West Africa to rekindle the slave trade, Cobra Verde finds himself facing the murderous intentions of a local despot, while amassing an army of Amazonian warriors to fulfil his mission. Taken from Bruce Chatwin's ‘The Viceroy of Ouidah', Cobra Verde is a typically lavish Herzog production, the imagery and cast of hundreds are an awe inspiring spectacle but there's a lack of passion to the actor and director's final collaboration which compares unfavourably to the epic, insane genius of their previous work.