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A documentary filmmaker sleeps with his camera to film the dreams he has at night.
During the slavery period in Brazil, a sugar cane farm was the stage for the darkest kinds of horrors. Years later, the place's cruel past is still stained in its walls, even if unnoticed, until a series of strange events starts happening and death returns to the farm. The film is divided in five short horror stories.
Elisabete was born in Mexico, but spent her childhood with her parents on the idyllic beach of Tabatinga, in northeastern Brazil. Far from contact with other children, Daniela was her only friend. Due to a mysterious trauma, Elisabete abandons her home and never stays in one place again. A choice with obvious consequences, and at thirty, Elisabete longs for an identity. She does not feel comfortable in her own skin, a stranger in her own world. In search of an answer, Elisabete revisits her memories of that place, but times have changed and the expectation of a reunion with her old confidante may bring with it some disappointments.
An orphan, a blind virgin who seeks sexual pleasure, a young man who prostitutes himself as a transvestite and is sexually abused by his brother-in-law. What was God thinking of when he created each one of them?
As the youngest son of a humble family, Charles finds himself at a crossroads when his father puts on his shoulders the burden of getting the family out of poverty, putting in check his big dream: Photography. Black and poor, Charles ends up being pressured to engage in activities such as playing samba or engaging in soccer, in addition to having to deal with the prejudice that someone of his ethnicity is not compatible with the camera he carries.
Babi is a woman who lives, loves, and moves around the city with the same intensity as she pedals her bicycle.
A road accident says a lot about humanity.
In Campina Grande, in Paraíba, a hamster named Borges lives with his owner, Napoleão (Everaldo Pontes). Blind, he is a fan of the Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges – origin of the name of the pet – and depends on acquaintances to survive. Yara (Verônica Cavalcanti), a girl who cleans the house, Romão (Fabiano Raposo), a boy who does little service, and Vladimir (Paulo Philippe) are his helpers and plan the robbery of a rare and unpublished work by Borges, which Napoleon says save.
A Political Movie
While a soccer team plays its games, events are experienced inside the houses. In other spaces, clay and the measure of a family's conflict.