Jenipapo is a highly-charged thriller in which Henry Czerney plays American journalist Michael Coleman, a strung-out expatriate writing for a Brazilian newspaper. His professional obsession is Father Stephen Louis (played by Patrick Bauchau), a wildly popular and charismatic priest who has been the political opponent of the ruthless landowners of the remote Bahia region. Coleman sets out alone to capture an interview with the highly elusive priest who seems to have gone silent in his battle with the landowners over Brazil’s forests.