She draws her own reality—and it's bleeding into yours.
After losing her job, an unstable woman sinks further and further into a violent fantasy world.
Acting
Guta Stresser's unraveling is physically uncomfortable to witness—in the best way.
Direction
Dhalia blurs comic panels and reality until you can't trust your own eyes.
Production
São Paulo's gray brutalism becomes a character suffocating Nina (and you).
Director
Heitor Dhalia
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of Brazil's early-2000s 'cinema de contorno' movement, using genre to smuggle class critique past censors and audiences expecting pure entertainment.
Guta Stresser, primarily a stage actress, trained for months with actual comic artists to nail the physicality of drawing—not just pretending.
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