In Soundtrack to a Coup d'État the multimedia artist Johan Grimonprez weaves the decolonization of the Congo to the beat of jazz. He outlines historical context before zooming in on the assassination of Congo's first democratically elected leader, Patrice Lumumba, in 1961, and the intervention of Belgian and American authorities in the country, fearing to lose control of Congolese uranium. The pressure cooker of colonialism, capitalism and racism is told in a fascinating interplay with the music, which makes Soundtrack to a Coup d'État a film out of the ordinary.