Hélcio Henriques

Panamerica, 1980. A stupid government decides that all citizens must participate in a deadly car race and sends an evil army to hunt down those who resist.

Toni has his mind set to the 70's, when he was the king of the dance floors and used to date Vera. Nowadays, lonely and disillusioned, he always visits the disco where he used to dance, now abandoned - until the day he is bound to face ghosts from the past.

Inspired by the legend of The Sack Man, the story takes place in a small and isolated town, where a boy needs to pick up his younger brother while his mom is out at work. With the sack man lurking and a missing child, keep his brother safe will not be easy.

Álvares de Azevedo was a 19th century Brazilian romantic writer. He died prematurely (died at the age of 21), but left a significant work for Brazilian literature. Among her, the novel “Noite na Taverna”. The film, loosely inspired by the book, tells a day in the life of its author in parallel with that which is one of its darkest and most complex characters, Johann. Inserted in the same universe (a hypothetical São Paulo of 1850), Álvares lives a normal day of his academic life while Johann is involved in a death duel that triggers in several other consequences such as murder and rape.

Raquel's life takes a terrible turn when she finds herself held captive by Gregorio, a sculptor of living dolls, who presents his conceptions of beauty and complete submission.