Dirce
Two tales of migration. In the first, after a tailings dam disaster floods her hometown, rural worker Joana (55) moves to São Paulo to find her sister Tania, who lives with her grandson Jaime. Joana enters the universe of insecurity, replying to an application for house cleaning. She bonds with her colleagues, and their struggle for better conditions gives Joana’s life a new meaning. Her relationship with young Jaime brings back old memories. In the second part, after the death of her estranged father, Flavia (32) moves to her farm with her wife Mara. The couple suffer a shock of reality when facing the harshness of rural life. The contact with the abandoned house reveals to Flavia unknown aspects of her father. She begins to suspect that there is something supernatural in the woods.
São Paulo, in a dystopian future not so very far from the present. A virus is circulating, one that mainly attacks the brain and the ability to remember. A state that has forgotten a past marked by colonialism and dictatorship desperately awaits some indeterminate “Golden Phase.” Three young queer people drift through a city bled dry by the pandemic and rampant capitalism, remembering each another’s late lovers, sharing their experiences with HIV, getting makeup tips for masked faces and ultimately coming together with others forgotten by society for an antique revue in the salon of a singer named Mirta.
Anita
Val é o tipo de empregada interna que leva o seu trabalho muito a sério. Usa a sua farda de criada impecavelmente engomada, enquanto serve canapés perfeitos; trabalha de manhã à noite ao serviço dos seus patrões abastados de São Paulo, cuidando também com amor do seu filho adolescente, que criou desde bebé. Tudo e todos estão no lugar certo nesta casa elegante até ao dia em que Jessica, a filha ambiciosa e inteligente de Val, regressa da cidade natal para fazer os exames de entrada na universidade. A presença confiante e jovial de Jessica vem destruir o equilíbrio de poder mudo, mas estrito existente naquela.
