What is being a “Bluesman”? It’s been the opposite of what “others” think. It’s going against the current, being your own strength, your own roots. It’s knowing we where neve an automatic reproduction of a submissive image created by them.

In a dystopian future, the Brazilian government decrees a measure that forces black citizens to migrate to Africa in an attempt to return to their origins. Seeing themselves in the center of terror, two cousins take refuge in an apartment, where they debate social and racial issues, and share the same yearning for the change of country.

Daniel O'Neil is a promising writer who has to work hard when Dora, his rich girlfriend, breaks up with him. Expelled from the hotel where he lives in Copacabana, Daniel moves into the small apartment of Meg, his best friend. He puts them both in danger when he gets a ride with a drug dealer who ends up being chased by the police and asks Daniel to keep two packages of cocaine.

The trajectory of the writer, journalist and chronicler from Rio de Janeiro, Afonso Henriques de Lima Barreto (1881-1922), one of the central figures of Brazilian literature in the 20th century, author of works such as the novels Memories of the Clerk Isaías Caminha (1909), Sad End of Policarpo Quaresma (1911), Clara dos Anjos (1922/1948).