Pedro Dulci

Niara, a police clerk about to retire, is touched by the case of Jana, a single mother and widow who appears at the police station to claim satisfaction regarding the lack of investigation into the brutal death of the father of her newborn daughter. Added to her personal motivations and the recurring misogyny and corruption of her chief delegate, the clerk crosses the limits imposed on her to try to discover what goes on behind the institution she works for.

The São Francisco River crosses the Brazilian hinterland, lands marked by extreme aridity. This great river that was once impetuous and generous is now very fragile. Deforestation of its margins and overexploitation of land by intensive agriculture endanger the great diversity of its ecosystem. The lives of riverside dwellers are affected in its deepest integrity, as well as their areas. The São Francisco River is the vital flow of their existence and the central place of their hopes and imagination, but the general feeling is that if the river dies, everything will disappear with it. Women are at the forefront of resistance. They struggle daily to allow for the possibility of a future. Their children also claim this identity, which it is up to them to renew and make fruitful.

Lucas returns to his parents house to celebrate his father's sixteenth birthday. When confronted with the conservative and bourgeois world from which he had escaped, Lucas realizes that he can no longer hide behind his old mask and decides to express what he really thinks.