Arthur de Faria

Finales del verano de 2007, sur de Brasil. Joana, de 13 años, quiere averiguar por qué su tía abuela Rosa murió a los 70 años sin haber salido nunca con nadie. Animada por su amiga Carolina, Joana inicia una investigación sobre el pasado de Rosa. Al enfrentarse a los valores de su comunidad, Joana se da cuenta de que todas las mujeres de su familia tienen un secreto, mientras que algo oculto en su interior también se revela. Se sumerge en su imaginación para encontrar respuestas mientras se levanta una gran central eólica en su pequeño pueblo.

A young man haunted by an unrequited love, begins to write a novel about his non-existent relationship with Carolina, a Brazilian resident in Argentina he met a long time ago.

Nalu lives with Ruben, her father, in a small country town near the Brazilian border with Uruguay. When Ruben realizes that his daughter is becoming a woman, an ambiguous closeness begins to develop between them.

In an empty city, scorched by the sun, the young and old confuse the fever of sunstroke with the delicate birth of passion. Like ghosts, they hover around buildings and endless flatlands in search of the ever elusive love. Inspired by 19th century Russian short stories, the plots weave and unravel together in the improbable city of Brasilia – a distorted mirror-image of the Soviet utopia – located in the heart of the Brazilian desert.