The film was made on an extremely low budget and scenes supposedly set amidst the "red soil" of Nigeria were actually filmed in the Northumbrian countryside, near Morpeth (UK)
American financing fell through because the company involved wanted Adam to be white and Eve to be black for the Garden of Eden sequences.
Mike Figgis wrote and directed the film and the music, co produced it and played the trumpet,
Filmed under the title of The Fred Mullet LP Short Stories in October 1997 on location in and around Newcastle Upon Tyne,
The first lines "I am come into my garden, my sister, my spouse", read to the old man by the Mixed Race Girl, are from "Song of Solomon."