The monotonous life of the butcher João is broken with the wedding announcement of Dona Eva’s niece: Melissa, a thirteen-year-old girl. At the end of the day, he closes the butcher shop and the loneliness becomes immense.

Weatherman from a TV network goes back to his hometown, Vale da Rocha, a place in Northeast Brazil, devastated by the drought. He is forced to face the geographic elements and his own memories.

In a Brazilian coastal village where everything seems motionless, Clarice grasps her life in a single day, unlike those she meets and who are living this day like any other. She tries to understand her obscure reality and the destiny of the people around her in a circular time that haunts and disorients.

Five directors with five completely different cinematic styles go on an affectionate journey through each one of the five states bathed by the gigantic São Francisco River. Faith, passions, legends and the search for survival in the riverside communities of this river full of colors, which cuts through the dry hinterlands and flows into the exuberant sea of Northeastern Brazil.

Reminiscence: remembrance of what the soul contemplated in a previous life, when, beside thegods, he had a direct vision of ideas. Through the reminiscences of a 74-year-old woman, who became blind as a child, we see the world.

Reminiscence: remembrance of what the soul contemplated in a previous life, when, beside thegods, he had a direct vision of ideas. Through the reminiscences of a 74-year-old woman, who became blind as a child, we see the world.

I am the double of the shadow of my own image. An allegory that occupies my place. This is my act of contrition. Beyond good and evil, I stand as an equation: Its result cannot be manipulated By morals or ethics. In mathematics there is no place for beliefs Just as life and death Are a certain fate.

A young girl of 13 lives with her mother on an isolated property. They are awaiting the return of their father and husband. But instead, another man appears, transforming the relationship between the mother and daughter. Based on two short stories by Brazilian poet Hilda Hilst.